Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

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

Status	Year	Sexual_orientation	Region_london	Sex	Responsibility_level_grouped	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	London	Female	AA/AO	4030	3565	32110	31470
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	London	Female	EO	7880	7230	37020	37020
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	London	Female	G6/G7	11470	10915	70570	68320
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	London	Female	SCS level	1645	1550	101440	93110
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	London	Female	SEO/HEO	12685	12185	46960	46710
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	London	Female	Unknown	1465	1375	38960	35900
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	London	Male	AA/AO	3430	3315	35150	32330
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	London	Male	EO	5605	5450	38360	37020
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	London	Male	G6/G7	9775	9605	71700	69080
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	London	Male	SCS level	1440	1420	105780	95960
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	London	Male	SEO/HEO	9840	9665	47880	47440
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	London	Male	Unknown	540	525	39620	35900
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	London	Unknown	AA/AO	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	London	Unknown	EO	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	London	Unknown	G6/G7	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	London	Unknown	SCS level	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	London	Unknown	SEO/HEO	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	London	Unknown	Unknown	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	Outside London	Female	AA/AO	42605	36600	28650	27840
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	Outside London	Female	EO	47550	42495	32910	32140
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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".
Sex	Self reported sex.
	"Unknown" accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
	Figures on sex presented here are based on management information provided by departments, which records the ‘legal sex’ of civil servants. ‘Legal sex’ does not align with ‘sex’ as defined by The Equality Act 2010.
	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).