Civil Service Statistics data browser (2025)

Data preview: All civil servants / Responsibility_level_grouped / Sex / Disability / Sexual_orientation

Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Sex Disability Sexual_orientation Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2025 AA/AO Female Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight 7850 6540 26980 26340
In post 2025 AA/AO Female Declared disabled LGBO 1000 925 27760 26640
In post 2025 AA/AO Female Declared disabled Undeclared 1070 875 26860 26340
In post 2025 AA/AO Female Declared disabled Unknown 635 510 27030 26640
In post 2025 AA/AO Female Declared non-disabled Heterosexual / straight 34100 29470 27560 26640
In post 2025 AA/AO Female Declared non-disabled LGBO 2240 2125 29510 27840
In post 2025 AA/AO Female Declared non-disabled Undeclared 3150 2635 27100 26340
In post 2025 AA/AO Female Declared non-disabled Unknown 3275 2500 26980 26340
In post 2025 AA/AO Female Undeclared Heterosexual / straight 1770 1505 27320 26640
In post 2025 AA/AO Female Undeclared LGBO 215 205 28190 26640
In post 2025 AA/AO Female Undeclared Undeclared 970 825 27370 26640
In post 2025 AA/AO Female Undeclared Unknown 405 335 29180 27840
In post 2025 AA/AO Female Unknown Heterosexual / straight 3330 2980 27260 26750
In post 2025 AA/AO Female Unknown LGBO 250 245 27760 26750
In post 2025 AA/AO Female Unknown Undeclared 325 285 27170 26750
In post 2025 AA/AO Female Unknown Unknown 11570 10395 27530 26640
In post 2025 AA/AO Male Declared disabled Heterosexual / straight 5160 4800 28280 26640
In post 2025 AA/AO Male Declared disabled LGBO 790 755 27690 26340
In post 2025 AA/AO Male Declared disabled Undeclared 715 650 28230 26340
In post 2025 AA/AO Male Declared disabled Unknown 405 370 28340 26640
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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).
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.
Sex Self reported sex.
"Unknown" accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
Disability Self reported disability.
"Undeclared" accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their disability status and "Unknown" accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their disability status.
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).