Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Function_of_post / Ethnicity / Sexual_orientation

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Status	Year	Function_of_post	Ethnicity	Sexual_orientation	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2026	Analysis	Asian	Heterosexual / straight	1105	1080	48610	44770
In post	2026	Analysis	Asian	LGBO	60	60	49630	47350
In post	2026	Analysis	Asian	Undeclared	90	90	50770	48580
In post	2026	Analysis	Asian	Unknown	125	120	40610	37970
In post	2026	Analysis	Black	Heterosexual / straight	430	425	44930	42810
In post	2026	Analysis	Black	LGBO	15	15	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Analysis	Black	Undeclared	15	15	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Analysis	Black	Unknown	25	25	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Analysis	Mixed	Heterosexual / straight	305	295	53650	50490
In post	2026	Analysis	Mixed	LGBO	55	50	49270	44460
In post	2026	Analysis	Mixed	Undeclared	30	25	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Analysis	Mixed	Unknown	30	30	44270	40230
In post	2026	Analysis	Other ethnicity	Heterosexual / straight	80	75	52900	51400
In post	2026	Analysis	Other ethnicity	LGBO	10	10	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Analysis	Other ethnicity	Undeclared	10	10	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Analysis	Other ethnicity	Unknown	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Analysis	Undeclared	Heterosexual / straight	80	80	50220	45530
In post	2026	Analysis	Undeclared	LGBO	5	5	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Analysis	Undeclared	Undeclared	360	340	52910	48440
In post	2026	Analysis	Undeclared	Unknown	80	75	51380	56000
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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).
Function_of_post	Functions relate to the post occupied by the person and are not dependent on qualifications the individual may have.
	Of the 21 bodies under the Scottish Government, 16 did not report any functions information for their employees.
	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.
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.
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).