Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Sexual_orientation / Responsibility_level_ungrouped / Organisation / Profession_of_post

Status Year Sexual_orientation Responsibility_level_ungrouped Organisation Profession_of_post Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA Accountant in Bankruptcy Operational Delivery 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA Accountant in Bankruptcy Other [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA Accountant in Bankruptcy Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA Animal and Plant Health Agency Operational Delivery [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA Animal and Plant Health Agency Science and Engineering [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA Companies House Operational Delivery [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority Operational Delivery 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA Crown Prosecution Service Operational Delivery [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA Defence Equipment and Support Other [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA Defence Equipment and Support Science and Engineering [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA Defence Science and Technology Laboratory Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA Department for Transport (excl. agencies) Policy [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA Department for Work and Pensions (excl. agencies) Counter Fraud [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA Department for Work and Pensions (excl. agencies) Debt 25 20 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA Department for Work and Pensions (excl. agencies) Operational Delivery 100 75 27770 27770
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA Disclosure Scotland Finance [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA Disclosure Scotland Operational Delivery 85 80 29040 29260
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA Disclosure Scotland Other [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency Finance 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency Human Resources [c] [c] [c] [c]
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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).
Organisation Executive Agencies, Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments, Crown Non-departmental Public Bodies.
Responsibility_level_ungrouped 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_ungrouped shows the mapped grades at a higher level of detail, however not all Government Departments / bodies have distinct grades that map exactly to these levels so figures should be considered as approximations and treated with caution.
Profession_of_post Professions relate to the post occupied by the person and are not dependent on qualifications the individual may have.
Three bodies did not report any professions information for their employees. These are as follows: Scottish Forestry, Forestry and Land Scotland and Serious Fraud Office.
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).