Civil Service Statistics data browser (2025)

Data preview: All civil servants / Region_london / Parent_department / Responsibility_level_ungrouped / Responsibility_level_grouped

Status Year Region_london Parent_department Responsibility_level_ungrouped Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2025 London Attorney General’s Departments AA AA/AO 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2025 London Attorney General’s Departments AO AA/AO 375 350 27720 27500
In post 2025 London Attorney General’s Departments EO EO 785 750 32310 33200
In post 2025 London Attorney General’s Departments G6 G6/G7 1045 955 77340 77500
In post 2025 London Attorney General’s Departments G7 G6/G7 1720 1625 63880 61200
In post 2025 London Attorney General’s Departments HEO SEO/HEO 500 485 38620 37750
In post 2025 London Attorney General’s Departments SCS level SCS level 265 250 94740 89100
In post 2025 London Attorney General’s Departments SEO SEO/HEO 325 320 44810 44530
In post 2025 London Cabinet Office AO AA/AO 70 65 30180 30140
In post 2025 London Cabinet Office EO EO 310 305 33330 33600
In post 2025 London Cabinet Office G6 G6/G7 795 785 75560 72740
In post 2025 London Cabinet Office G7 G6/G7 1630 1590 63600 61740
In post 2025 London Cabinet Office HEO SEO/HEO 1790 1775 35280 33600
In post 2025 London Cabinet Office SCS level SCS level 540 525 110280 102900
In post 2025 London Cabinet Office SEO SEO/HEO 660 650 46770 46730
In post 2025 London Chancellor’s other departments AO AA/AO 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2025 London Chancellor’s other departments EO EO 30 30 33890 33460
In post 2025 London Chancellor’s other departments G6 G6/G7 120 110 98370 90530
In post 2025 London Chancellor’s other departments G7 G6/G7 80 75 63270 64270
In post 2025 London Chancellor’s other departments HEO SEO/HEO 60 60 41040 40800
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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 2025-07-18

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.
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.
Responsibility_level_ungrouped 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_ungrouped shows the mapped grades at a higher level of detail, however not all Government Departments / bodies have distinct grades that map exactly to these levels so figures should be considered as approximations and treated with caution.
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".
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).