Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Ethnicity / Parent_department

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Status	Year	Ethnicity	Parent_department	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2026	Asian	Attorney General’s Departments	1235	1160	51440	55980
In post	2026	Asian	Cabinet Office	850	840	48770	41210
In post	2026	Asian	Chancellor’s other departments	65	65	55990	51370
In post	2026	Asian	Charity Commission	10	10	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Asian	Competition and Markets Authority	140	135	58050	52750
In post	2026	Asian	Department for Business and Trade	945	915	46580	41540
In post	2026	Asian	Department for Culture, Media and Sport	80	80	51920	45680
In post	2026	Asian	Department for Education	935	905	48340	43480
In post	2026	Asian	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero	435	425	55040	49900
In post	2026	Asian	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	670	655	42030	39080
In post	2026	Asian	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology	490	485	53160	47730
In post	2026	Asian	Department for Transport	885	850	42210	35660
In post	2026	Asian	Department for Work and Pensions	11730	10740	34780	32140
In post	2026	Asian	Department of Health and Social Care	1535	1490	51150	46310
In post	2026	Asian	Estyn	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Asian	Food Standards Agency	65	65	47120	43820
In post	2026	Asian	Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office	610	600	51960	45740
In post	2026	Asian	HM Land Registry	240	215	38140	32120
In post	2026	Asian	HM Revenue and Customs	8145	7725	38920	35420
In post	2026	Asian	HM Treasury	270	260	56060	53770
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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).
Parent_department	Government Department, total figures for both Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments include all of their Executive Agencies.
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.
	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).