Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Sexual_orientation / Region_london / Responsibility_level_grouped / Ethnicity

Status Year Sexual_orientation Region_london Responsibility_level_grouped Ethnicity Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight London AA/AO Asian 1965 1775 32110 31470
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight London AA/AO Black 2260 2130 34690 31670
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight London AA/AO Mixed 320 300 33760 31670
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight London AA/AO Other ethnicity 155 140 33270 31670
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight London AA/AO Undeclared 155 140 32820 31470
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight London AA/AO Unknown 105 95 33610 31470
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight London AA/AO White 2500 2295 33560 31670
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight London EO Asian 4300 4005 37570 37020
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight London EO Black 3140 2975 37000 37020
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight London EO Mixed 625 590 37360 37020
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight London EO Other ethnicity 320 305 37710 37020
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight London EO Undeclared 335 310 37340 37020
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight London EO Unknown 145 135 36770 35650
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight London EO White 4615 4355 38030 37020
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight London G6/G7 Asian 2835 2765 70150 68050
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight London G6/G7 Black 1175 1155 68980 67370
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight London G6/G7 Mixed 870 840 70140 68130
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight London G6/G7 Other ethnicity 290 280 70280 67220
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight London G6/G7 Undeclared 215 210 72340 69360
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight London G6/G7 Unknown 280 270 70480 67370
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Notes: Summary figures are suppressed when information relates to less than 5 civil servants for FTE or Headcount, and less than 10 civil servants for median and mean salary (shown as [c]). Zero responses and salaries for less than 30 civil servants have been suppressed for GPDR special category data. FTE figures are not shown for entrants or leavers due to data quality concerns for these groups. Figures are rounded to the nearest 5, or £10 as appropriate.

Data source: All figures are aggregated from the Cabinet Office Annual Civil Service Employment Survey collection.

Version: Generated on 2026-07-16

Data column Description
Status Employment status of the civil servants.
In post - includes staff that were in post on the reference date (31 March).
New entrant CS - includes new entrants to the Civil Service over the year (1 April to 31 March).
Leaver CS - includes leavers from the Civil Service over the year (1 April to 31 March). This includes employees who have an Unknown leaving cause.
Leaver Dept. - includes leavers from the department over the year (1 April to 31 March), who did not leave the Civil Service.
Year Year of data collection (as at 31 March).
Responsibility_level_grouped With the exception of the centrally managed Senior Civil Service, government departments have delegated pay and grading. For statistical purposes departments are asked to map their grades to a common framework by responsibility level.
This table shows staff in their substantive responsibility level unless on temporary promotion in which case staff are recorded at the higher responsibility level.
Responsibility_level_grouped combines the mapped grades into five broad responsibility levels. This is the headline measure for responsibility level for the Civil Service and is consistent with the published National Statistics.
Region_london Workplace postcode data are used to derive geographical information using the International Territorial Level (ITL) classification standard.
Region_london groups the ITL classifications into "London", "Outside London": all UK regions excluding London, "Overseas", and "Unknown".
Ethnicity Self reported ethnicity. "Undeclared" accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their ethnicity and "Unknown" accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their ethnicity.
The Serious Fraud Office have not reported any data for profession, function, ethnicity, disabilty and sexual orientation due to alignment concerns with these fields with external reporting criteria. The Serious Fraud Office is currently undertaking work to ensure a robust dataset is reported for the 2027 ACSES return.
Sexual_orientation Self reported sexual orientation.
"Undeclared" accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their sexual orientation and "Unknown" accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their sexual orientation.
The Serious Fraud Office have not reported any data for profession, function, ethnicity, disabilty and sexual orientation due to alignment concerns with these fields with external reporting criteria. The Serious Fraud Office is currently undertaking work to ensure a robust dataset is reported for the 2027 ACSES return.
Headcount Total number of civil servants (rounded to nearest 5).
FTE Total full-time equivalent (FTE) employment numbers (rounded to nearest 5).
FTE figures are not shown for entrants or leavers due to data quality concerns for these groups.
Mean_salary Average salary (mean, rounded to nearest £10). For part-time employees, salaries represent the full-time equivalent earnings, while for full-time employees they are the actual annual gross salaries.
These figures should be interpreted with caution when the total number of employees in a group is small, as they will tend to show more variability than larger groups (i.e. may be much higher or lower than can be explained by the data shown).
Median_salary Median salary (rounded to nearest £10). For part-time employees, salaries represent the full-time equivalent earnings, while for full-time employees they are the actual annual gross salaries.
These figures should be interpreted with caution when the total number of employees in a group is small, as they will tend to show more variability than larger groups (i.e. may be much higher or lower than can be explained by the data shown).