Civil Service Statistics data browser (2025)

Data preview: All civil servants / Function_of_post / Ethnicity

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Status	Year	Function_of_post	Ethnicity	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2025	Analysis	Asian	1100	1075	47730	43510
In post	2025	Analysis	Black	395	390	43260	41360
In post	2025	Analysis	Mixed	370	365	49940	46790
In post	2025	Analysis	Other ethnicity	120	115	48850	43660
In post	2025	Analysis	Undeclared	400	385	52560	49000
In post	2025	Analysis	Unknown	1340	1310	49120	45190
In post	2025	Analysis	White	8505	8135	51590	47560
In post	2025	Commercial	Asian	525	510	51540	45140
In post	2025	Commercial	Black	270	265	48080	42500
In post	2025	Commercial	Mixed	170	170	51550	45860
In post	2025	Commercial	Other ethnicity	35	35	48810	46090
In post	2025	Commercial	Undeclared	275	265	54070	47830
In post	2025	Commercial	Unknown	775	760	45540	41160
In post	2025	Commercial	White	5810	5605	53820	47160
In post	2025	Communications	Asian	245	240	44210	42890
In post	2025	Communications	Black	135	130	42990	39710
In post	2025	Communications	Mixed	140	135	49170	46290
In post	2025	Communications	Other ethnicity	50	45	50810	48050
In post	2025	Communications	Undeclared	150	140	46340	44370
In post	2025	Communications	Unknown	895	870	49950	46200

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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.
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).