Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

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Status Year Disability Responsibility_level_grouped Responsibility_level_ungrouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2026 Declared disabled AA/AO AA 2025 1780 28740 29260
In post 2026 Declared disabled AA/AO AO 16125 14135 29100 27840
In post 2026 Declared disabled EO EO 21960 19815 33530 32140
In post 2026 Declared disabled G6/G7 G6 2300 2210 79840 78840
In post 2026 Declared disabled G6/G7 G7 7420 7080 63990 63170
In post 2026 Declared disabled SCS level SCS level 710 685 100860 93550
In post 2026 Declared disabled SEO/HEO HEO 12070 11420 40020 38900
In post 2026 Declared disabled SEO/HEO SEO 9020 8605 48870 47530
In post 2026 Declared disabled Unknown Unknown 5080 4720 34930 31650
In post 2026 Declared non-disabled AA/AO AA 8670 7890 28970 29260
In post 2026 Declared non-disabled AA/AO AO 67855 61380 30320 28020
In post 2026 Declared non-disabled EO EO 84045 77775 33970 32140
In post 2026 Declared non-disabled G6/G7 G6 16380 15735 79850 78720
In post 2026 Declared non-disabled G6/G7 G7 40685 39110 64560 63570
In post 2026 Declared non-disabled SCS level SCS level 5260 5095 102850 94900
In post 2026 Declared non-disabled SEO/HEO HEO 54110 51615 40520 39010
In post 2026 Declared non-disabled SEO/HEO SEO 46975 45185 49350 47690
In post 2026 Declared non-disabled Unknown Unknown 15250 14295 34780 31650
In post 2026 Undeclared AA/AO AA 1015 875 29730 30660
In post 2026 Undeclared AA/AO AO 5850 5200 30320 28020
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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 2026-07-16

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.
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.
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.
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.
The Serious Fraud Office have not reported any data for profession, function, ethnicity, disabilty and sexual orientation due to alignment concerns with these fields with external reporting criteria. The Serious Fraud Office is currently undertaking work to ensure a robust dataset is reported for the 2027 ACSES return.
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).