Civil Service Statistics data browser (2025)

Data preview: All civil servants / Ethnicity / Sexual_orientation / Function_of_post

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Status Year Ethnicity Sexual_orientation Function_of_post Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2025 Asian Heterosexual / straight Analysis 910 890 47920 43780
In post 2025 Asian Heterosexual / straight Commercial 425 415 50750 44940
In post 2025 Asian Heterosexual / straight Communications 205 200 44030 42890
In post 2025 Asian Heterosexual / straight Counter Fraud 1275 1205 36330 35680
In post 2025 Asian Heterosexual / straight Debt 780 700 28160 26640
In post 2025 Asian Heterosexual / straight Digital and Data 2290 2255 49630 45760
In post 2025 Asian Heterosexual / straight Finance 1030 1005 46230 42960
In post 2025 Asian Heterosexual / straight Grants Management 105 100 35050 28930
In post 2025 Asian Heterosexual / straight Internal Audit 90 85 53970 50820
In post 2025 Asian Heterosexual / straight Legal 1260 1190 49810 54080
In post 2025 Asian Heterosexual / straight No function 23090 21650 36380 32000
In post 2025 Asian Heterosexual / straight People 725 695 43170 39200
In post 2025 Asian Heterosexual / straight Project Delivery 1410 1365 47790 43950
In post 2025 Asian Heterosexual / straight Property 355 340 42450 39190
In post 2025 Asian Heterosexual / straight Security 405 395 39950 37600
In post 2025 Asian Heterosexual / straight Unknown 2450 2295 35070 30980
In post 2025 Asian LGBO Analysis 55 55 46750 45030
In post 2025 Asian LGBO Commercial 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Asian LGBO Communications 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Asian LGBO Counter Fraud 25 20 [c] [c]
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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).
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.
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).