Civil Service Statistics data browser (2025)

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

Status Year Disability Sexual_orientation Ethnicity Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2025 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Asian AA/AO 950 825 27240 26340
In post 2025 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Asian EO 1505 1370 32490 30980
In post 2025 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Asian G6/G7 410 400 65890 62590
In post 2025 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Asian SCS level 25 25 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Asian SEO/HEO 1080 1035 42310 41940
In post 2025 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Asian Unknown 190 175 33330 31650
In post 2025 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Black AA/AO 480 430 28970 28490
In post 2025 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Black EO 870 810 33550 34330
In post 2025 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Black G6/G7 185 180 65500 63290
In post 2025 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Black SCS level 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Black SEO/HEO 595 575 42940 42110
In post 2025 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Black Unknown 325 300 36640 35130
In post 2025 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Mixed AA/AO 305 270 27770 26640
In post 2025 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Mixed EO 405 375 32390 30980
In post 2025 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Mixed G6/G7 205 195 64800 62770
In post 2025 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Mixed SCS level 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Mixed SEO/HEO 385 370 42390 41880
In post 2025 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Mixed Unknown 170 160 35310 35130
In post 2025 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Other ethnicity AA/AO 60 50 27330 26640
In post 2025 Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight Other ethnicity EO 120 110 33090 31640
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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 2025-07-16

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.
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.
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.
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).