Civil Service Statistics data browser (2025)

Data preview: All civil servants / Responsibility_level_ungrouped / Sex / Ethnicity

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Status Year Responsibility_level_ungrouped Sex Ethnicity Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2025 AA Female Asian 270 225 26640 26340
In post 2025 AA Female Black 320 290 28380 27840
In post 2025 AA Female Mixed 130 120 27190 27840
In post 2025 AA Female Other ethnicity 30 30 27770 27840
In post 2025 AA Female Undeclared 120 95 26410 26340
In post 2025 AA Female Unknown 1580 1395 26920 26570
In post 2025 AA Female White 5345 4580 26540 27840
In post 2025 AA Male Asian 360 340 27890 27840
In post 2025 AA Male Black 470 460 28870 27840
In post 2025 AA Male Mixed 85 85 27980 27840
In post 2025 AA Male Other ethnicity 45 45 28100 27840
In post 2025 AA Male Undeclared 230 215 26910 26390
In post 2025 AA Male Unknown 1575 1505 27560 27840
In post 2025 AA Male White 5335 4980 27070 27840
In post 2025 AA Unknown Asian [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 AA Unknown Black [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 AA Unknown Mixed [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 AA Unknown Other ethnicity [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 AA Unknown White [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 AO Female Asian 5270 4480 27120 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 2025-07-16

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_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.
Sex Self reported sex.
"Unknown" accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
Ethnicity Self reported ethnicity. "Undeclared" accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their ethnicity and "Unknown" accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their ethnicity.
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).