Civil Service Statistics data browser (2025)

Data preview: All civil servants / Ethnicity / Function_of_post / Organisation / Parent_department

Status Year Ethnicity Function_of_post Organisation Parent_department Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2025 Asian Analysis Active Travel England Department for Transport [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 Asian Analysis Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service Department for Business and Trade [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 Asian Analysis Animal and Plant Health Agency Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Asian Analysis Attorney General’s Office Attorney General’s Departments [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 Asian Analysis Building Digital UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 Asian Analysis Cabinet Office (excl. agencies) Cabinet Office [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 Asian Analysis Central Civil Service Fast Stream Cabinet Office 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Asian Analysis Charity Commission Charity Commission [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 Asian Analysis Companies House Department for Business and Trade [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 Asian Analysis Competition and Markets Authority Competition and Markets Authority 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Asian Analysis Consumer Scotland Scottish Government [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 Asian Analysis Defence Science and Technology Laboratory Ministry of Defence 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Asian Analysis Department for Business and Trade (excl. agencies) Department for Business and Trade 45 45 56650 60740
In post 2025 Asian Analysis Department for Culture, Media and Sport Department for Culture, Media and Sport 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Asian Analysis Department for Education (excl. agencies) Department for Education 55 55 48470 47460
In post 2025 Asian Analysis Department for Energy Security and Net Zero Department for Energy Security and Net Zero 60 55 54060 51460
In post 2025 Asian Analysis Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (excl. agencies) Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 40 40 44830 37820
In post 2025 Asian Analysis Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (excl. agencies) Department for Science, Innovation and Technology 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Asian Analysis Department for Transport (excl. agencies) Department for Transport 45 40 53340 48410
In post 2025 Asian Analysis Department for Work and Pensions (excl. agencies) Department for Work and Pensions 100 95 40610 37500
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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).
Parent_department Government Department, total figures for both Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments include all of their Executive Agencies.
Organisation Executive Agencies, Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments, Crown Non-departmental Public Bodies.
Function_of_post Functions relate to the post occupied by the person and are not dependent on qualifications the individual may have.
Of the 21 bodies under the Scottish Government, 16 did not report any functions information for their employees.
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.
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).