Civil Service Statistics data browser (2025)

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

Status Year Disability Responsibility_level_grouped Sexual_orientation Sex Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2025 Declared disabled AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Female 7850 6540 26980 26340
In post 2025 Declared disabled AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Male 5160 4800 28280 26640
In post 2025 Declared disabled AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 Declared disabled AA/AO LGBO Female 1000 925 27760 26640
In post 2025 Declared disabled AA/AO LGBO Male 790 755 27690 26340
In post 2025 Declared disabled AA/AO LGBO Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 Declared disabled AA/AO Undeclared Female 1070 875 26860 26340
In post 2025 Declared disabled AA/AO Undeclared Male 715 650 28230 26340
In post 2025 Declared disabled AA/AO Undeclared Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 Declared disabled AA/AO Unknown Female 635 510 27030 26640
In post 2025 Declared disabled AA/AO Unknown Male 405 370 28340 26640
In post 2025 Declared disabled AA/AO Unknown Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 Declared disabled EO Heterosexual / straight Female 10265 8970 31640 30980
In post 2025 Declared disabled EO Heterosexual / straight Male 5585 5295 32210 30980
In post 2025 Declared disabled EO Heterosexual / straight Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 Declared disabled EO LGBO Female 1180 1120 31630 30980
In post 2025 Declared disabled EO LGBO Male 915 880 31640 30980
In post 2025 Declared disabled EO LGBO Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 Declared disabled EO Undeclared Female 1250 1085 31780 30980
In post 2025 Declared disabled EO Undeclared Male 785 725 32130 30980
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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 2025-07-18

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, United Kingdom Statistics Authority, Scottish Forestry and Forest and Land Scotland.
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.
Sex Self reported sex.
"Unknown" accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
Disability Self reported disability.
"Undeclared" accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their disability status and "Unknown" accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their disability status.
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.
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).