Civil Service Statistics data browser (2022)

Data preview: All civil servants / Region_london / Responsibility_level_grouped / Parent_department / Responsibility_level_ungrouped

Status Year Region_london Responsibility_level_grouped Parent_department Responsibility_level_ungrouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2022 London AA/AO Attorney General’s Departments AA 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2022 London AA/AO Attorney General’s Departments AO 420 395 23510 23770
In post 2022 London AA/AO Cabinet Office AO 115 110 24240 24490
In post 2022 London AA/AO Chancellor’s other departments AO 20 20 23560 24020
In post 2022 London AA/AO Charity Commission AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 London AA/AO Competition and Markets Authority AO 20 20 23010 22520
In post 2022 London AA/AO Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy AA 10 10 22040 22040
In post 2022 London AA/AO Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy AO 130 125 25210 25060
In post 2022 London AA/AO Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport AO 10 10 23930 23560
In post 2022 London AA/AO Department for Education AO 30 30 24160 24250
In post 2022 London AA/AO Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs AA [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 London AA/AO Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs AO 85 80 24410 24370
In post 2022 London AA/AO Department for International Trade AO 25 25 25260 25140
In post 2022 London AA/AO Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities AA [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 London AA/AO Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities AO 30 30 26850 26870
In post 2022 London AA/AO Department for Transport AA [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2022 London AA/AO Department for Transport AO 145 125 30490 31930
In post 2022 London AA/AO Department for Work and Pensions AA 15 10 21130 21760
In post 2022 London AA/AO Department for Work and Pensions AO 1510 1325 24580 25110
In post 2022 London AA/AO Department of Health and Social Care AA 60 40 22290 22350
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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 2023-02-15, with GIT 71a76ea.

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.
Five organisations do not report when their employees first entered the Civil Service and so entrants data for these organisations is not available . These are as follows: Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (excl. agencies), Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office Services, Defence Electronics and Components Agency, Scottish Forestry and Forest and Land Scotland. A further three organisations also could not provide entrants data in 2021. These are as follows: Department for International Development, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (excl. agencies) and Royal Fleet Auxiliary.
Organisation specific notes on status: In late June 2021 around 7,000 employees from Community Rehabilitation Companies were transferred in from the private sector to HM Prison and Probation Service, counting as entrants. HM Land Registry do not record where their departing employees transfer to and so are unable to identify those that transfer to another Civil Service department.
Year Year of data collection (as at 31 March).
Parent_department Government Department, total figures for both Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments include all of their Executive Agencies.
On 30 September 2021, the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government changed its name to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities.
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.
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.
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”.
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).