Civil Service Statistics data browser (2025)

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Status Year Function_of_post Region_london Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2025 Analysis London AA/AO 70 70 29150 28580
In post 2025 Analysis London EO 270 265 33450 33260
In post 2025 Analysis London G6/G7 2450 2355 69140 66540
In post 2025 Analysis London SCS level 225 220 98530 91720
In post 2025 Analysis London SEO/HEO 2355 2315 44810 44760
In post 2025 Analysis Outside London AA/AO 205 195 25610 25300
In post 2025 Analysis Outside London EO 855 800 29970 30730
In post 2025 Analysis Outside London G6/G7 1945 1845 61340 58750
In post 2025 Analysis Outside London SCS level 70 70 90090 85050
In post 2025 Analysis Outside London SEO/HEO 3680 3545 40490 41360
In post 2025 Analysis Outside London Unknown [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 Analysis Overseas EO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 Analysis Overseas G6/G7 55 55 61050 60720
In post 2025 Analysis Overseas SEO/HEO 20 20 42170 40320
In post 2025 Analysis Unknown EO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 Analysis Unknown G6/G7 10 10 65190 62860
In post 2025 Analysis Unknown SEO/HEO 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Commercial London AA/AO 15 10 28670 28660
In post 2025 Commercial London EO 130 130 33760 33600
In post 2025 Commercial London G6/G7 920 900 71290 72140
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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.
Region_london Workplace postcode data are used to derive geographical information using the International Territorial Level (ITL) classification standard.
Region_london groups the ITL classifications into "London", "Outside London": all UK regions excluding London, "Overseas", and "Unknown".
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.
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).