Civil Service Statistics data browser (2025)

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

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Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Sexual_orientation Disability Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2025 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled 13010 11340 27490 26340
In post 2025 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Declared non-disabled 62570 56910 28710 26740
In post 2025 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Undeclared 3490 3090 28520 26750
In post 2025 AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Unknown 6430 5965 28200 26750
In post 2025 AA/AO LGBO Declared disabled 1790 1680 27730 26340
In post 2025 AA/AO LGBO Declared non-disabled 3820 3665 28950 26730
In post 2025 AA/AO LGBO Undeclared 370 350 28330 26640
In post 2025 AA/AO LGBO Unknown 430 420 27740 26750
In post 2025 AA/AO Undeclared Declared disabled 1785 1525 27410 26340
In post 2025 AA/AO Undeclared Declared non-disabled 5110 4475 27630 26340
In post 2025 AA/AO Undeclared Undeclared 2200 1975 28560 26640
In post 2025 AA/AO Undeclared Unknown 620 570 28190 26750
In post 2025 AA/AO Unknown Declared disabled 1040 880 27540 26640
In post 2025 AA/AO Unknown Declared non-disabled 5255 4310 27610 26340
In post 2025 AA/AO Unknown Undeclared 955 785 30740 29100
In post 2025 AA/AO Unknown Unknown 22195 20690 28360 26640
In post 2025 EO Heterosexual / straight Declared disabled 15855 14265 31840 30980
In post 2025 EO Heterosexual / straight Declared non-disabled 67320 62635 31940 30980
In post 2025 EO Heterosexual / straight Undeclared 3410 3170 32540 30980
In post 2025 EO Heterosexual / straight Unknown 8600 8300 33540 31500
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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.
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).