Civil Service Statistics data browser (2025)

Data preview: All civil servants / Ethnicity / Parent_department

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Status Year Ethnicity Parent_department Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2025 Asian Attorney General’s Departments 1245 1170 48670 44620
In post 2025 Asian Cabinet Office 955 945 48350 40160
In post 2025 Asian Chancellor’s other departments 65 60 55380 51820
In post 2025 Asian Charity Commission 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Asian Competition and Markets Authority 150 150 55590 51480
In post 2025 Asian Department for Business and Trade 870 845 45370 41710
In post 2025 Asian Department for Culture, Media and Sport 70 70 52420 47320
In post 2025 Asian Department for Education 905 880 46000 41760
In post 2025 Asian Department for Energy Security and Net Zero 435 425 53210 48090
In post 2025 Asian Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 695 675 40160 37650
In post 2025 Asian Department for Science, Innovation and Technology 395 390 49310 45520
In post 2025 Asian Department for Transport 835 800 41710 36580
In post 2025 Asian Department for Work and Pensions 11070 10155 32980 30980
In post 2025 Asian Department of Health and Social Care 1410 1360 49850 44850
In post 2025 Asian Estyn [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 Asian Food Standards Agency 70 65 46630 42430
In post 2025 Asian Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office 620 610 49910 43930
In post 2025 Asian HM Land Registry 235 210 35920 30960
In post 2025 Asian HM Revenue and Customs 7135 6745 37890 35680
In post 2025 Asian HM Treasury 335 325 51460 47150
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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.
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).