Civil Service Statistics data browser (2025)

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Status Year Region_ITL1 Organisation Responsibility_level_grouped Parent_department Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2025 East (England) Active Travel England G6/G7 Department for Transport [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 East (England) Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service AA/AO Department for Business and Trade [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 East (England) Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service EO Department for Business and Trade 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2025 East (England) Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service G6/G7 Department for Business and Trade [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 East (England) Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service SEO/HEO Department for Business and Trade 25 25 40210 38320
In post 2025 East (England) Animal and Plant Health Agency AA/AO Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 10 10 25070 25070
In post 2025 East (England) Animal and Plant Health Agency EO Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 70 70 28540 28800
In post 2025 East (England) Animal and Plant Health Agency G6/G7 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 15 10 56420 54840
In post 2025 East (England) Animal and Plant Health Agency SEO/HEO Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 95 90 38100 35810
In post 2025 East (England) Cabinet Office (excl. agencies) EO Cabinet Office 10 10 32080 33600
In post 2025 East (England) Cabinet Office (excl. agencies) G6/G7 Cabinet Office 35 35 63260 61740
In post 2025 East (England) Cabinet Office (excl. agencies) SCS level Cabinet Office 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2025 East (England) Cabinet Office (excl. agencies) SEO/HEO Cabinet Office 30 30 42620 42890
In post 2025 East (England) Central Civil Service Fast Stream SEO/HEO Cabinet Office 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2025 East (England) Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science AA/AO Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 10 10 25120 25120
In post 2025 East (England) Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science EO Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 75 70 28800 28780
In post 2025 East (England) Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science G6/G7 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 115 110 57250 54470
In post 2025 East (England) Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science SCS level Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 East (England) Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science SEO/HEO Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 255 245 37370 34050
In post 2025 East (England) Companies House SEO/HEO Department for Business and Trade [c] [c] [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).
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.
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_ITL1 Workplace postcode data are used to derive geographical information using the International Territorial Level (ITL) classification standard.
Following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, a new UK-managed international statistical geography - International Territorial Levels (ITL) - was introduced from 1st January 2021, replacing the former NUTS classification. They align with international standards, enabling comparability both over time and internationally. To ensure continued alignment, the ITLs mirror the NUTS system. They also follow a similar review timetable - every three years.
ITL 1 divides into Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and the 9 statistical regions of England.
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).