Civil Service Statistics data browser (2025)

Data preview: All civil servants / Sex / Responsibility_level_grouped / Profession_of_post

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Status Year Sex Responsibility_level_grouped Profession_of_post Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2025 Female AA/AO Clinical 305 280 27820 28030
In post 2025 Female AA/AO Commercial 190 170 27220 26280
In post 2025 Female AA/AO Communications 120 115 26940 27280
In post 2025 Female AA/AO Corporate Finance [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2025 Female AA/AO Counter Fraud 1100 900 26920 26340
In post 2025 Female AA/AO Digital and Data 180 165 26590 26340
In post 2025 Female AA/AO Economics 25 20 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Female AA/AO Finance 645 565 27080 26640
In post 2025 Female AA/AO Geography 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Female AA/AO Human Resources 740 665 27370 27280
In post 2025 Female AA/AO Intelligence Analysis 55 45 28510 28470
In post 2025 Female AA/AO Internal Audit 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Female AA/AO Knowledge and Information Management 265 240 27250 27280
In post 2025 Female AA/AO Legal 30 25 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Female AA/AO Occupational Psychology 65 60 28460 28470
In post 2025 Female AA/AO Operational Delivery 63895 54975 27470 26640
In post 2025 Female AA/AO Operational Research 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Female AA/AO Other 1150 1015 27140 26570
In post 2025 Female AA/AO Planning 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2025 Female AA/AO Policy 290 270 27910 28250
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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.
Profession_of_post Professions relate to the post occupied by the person and are not dependent on qualifications the individual may have.
Two bodies did not report any professions information for their employees. These are as follows: Scottish Forestry and Forestry and Land Scotland.
Sex Self reported sex.
"Unknown" accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
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).