Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

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

Status Year Disability Responsibility_level_ungrouped Sexual_orientation Responsibility_level_grouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2026 Declared disabled AA Heterosexual / straight AA/AO 1515 1325 28730 29260
In post 2026 Declared disabled AA LGBO AA/AO 235 220 29010 29260
In post 2026 Declared disabled AA Undeclared AA/AO 155 135 28630 27770
In post 2026 Declared disabled AA Unknown AA/AO 120 100 28540 27770
In post 2026 Declared disabled AO Heterosexual / straight AA/AO 11750 10245 29100 27840
In post 2026 Declared disabled AO LGBO AA/AO 1785 1675 29170 27840
In post 2026 Declared disabled AO Undeclared AA/AO 1680 1435 29010 27840
In post 2026 Declared disabled AO Unknown AA/AO 910 785 29100 28020
In post 2026 Declared disabled EO Heterosexual / straight EO 16490 14815 33500 32140
In post 2026 Declared disabled EO LGBO EO 2315 2210 33270 32140
In post 2026 Declared disabled EO Undeclared EO 2165 1925 33630 32140
In post 2026 Declared disabled EO Unknown EO 990 865 34490 32230
In post 2026 Declared disabled G6 Heterosexual / straight G6/G7 1735 1665 79890 78880
In post 2026 Declared disabled G6 LGBO G6/G7 260 255 78820 77460
In post 2026 Declared disabled G6 Undeclared G6/G7 200 195 80790 79430
In post 2026 Declared disabled G6 Unknown G6/G7 105 100 79730 78900
In post 2026 Declared disabled G7 Heterosexual / straight G6/G7 5385 5125 64030 63190
In post 2026 Declared disabled G7 LGBO G6/G7 960 930 63050 62890
In post 2026 Declared disabled G7 Undeclared G6/G7 645 615 64380 63460
In post 2026 Declared disabled G7 Unknown G6/G7 430 410 64920 63510
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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.
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.
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).