Civil Service Statistics data browser (2025)

Data preview: All civil servants / Sex / Sexual_orientation / Parent_department

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Status Year Sex Sexual_orientation Parent_department Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2025 Female Heterosexual / straight Attorney General’s Departments 5295 4875 49770 54080
In post 2025 Female Heterosexual / straight Cabinet Office 3850 3700 54490 48610
In post 2025 Female Heterosexual / straight Chancellor’s other departments 165 160 63310 53550
In post 2025 Female Heterosexual / straight Charity Commission 160 150 42780 36840
In post 2025 Female Heterosexual / straight Competition and Markets Authority 480 460 67290 63630
In post 2025 Female Heterosexual / straight Department for Business and Trade 3650 3440 45550 42290
In post 2025 Female Heterosexual / straight Department for Culture, Media and Sport 435 410 55320 57230
In post 2025 Female Heterosexual / straight Department for Education 3945 3715 49260 45490
In post 2025 Female Heterosexual / straight Department for Energy Security and Net Zero 1670 1600 57030 56800
In post 2025 Female Heterosexual / straight Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 5900 5465 40900 37650
In post 2025 Female Heterosexual / straight Department for Science, Innovation and Technology 2320 2180 48830 44620
In post 2025 Female Heterosexual / straight Department for Transport 4970 4460 37680 30150
In post 2025 Female Heterosexual / straight Department for Work and Pensions 46485 40520 33270 30980
In post 2025 Female Heterosexual / straight Department of Health and Social Care 4620 4395 51480 45660
In post 2025 Female Heterosexual / straight Estyn 70 65 64130 80710
In post 2025 Female Heterosexual / straight Food Standards Agency 590 570 45260 41900
In post 2025 Female Heterosexual / straight Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office 2725 2650 53330 47940
In post 2025 Female Heterosexual / straight HM Land Registry 2425 2110 36740 30960
In post 2025 Female Heterosexual / straight HM Revenue and Customs 22960 20695 39910 36790
In post 2025 Female Heterosexual / straight HM Treasury 1010 960 54580 55760
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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).
Parent_department Government Department, total figures for both Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments include all of their Executive Agencies.
Sex Self reported sex.
"Unknown" accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
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).