Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Function_of_post / Parent_department / Organisation

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Status	Year	Function_of_post	Parent_department	Organisation	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2026	Analysis	Attorney General’s Departments	Crown Prosecution Service	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Analysis	Attorney General’s Departments	Government Legal Department	5	5	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Analysis	Cabinet Office	Cabinet Office (excl. agencies)	190	190	58680	63350
In post	2026	Analysis	Cabinet Office	Central Civil Service Fast Stream	340	340	34230	35000
In post	2026	Analysis	Chancellor’s other departments	Government Actuary’s Department	185	170	82750	81780
In post	2026	Analysis	Chancellor’s other departments	National Savings and Investments	25	25	54300	51840
In post	2026	Analysis	Charity Commission	Charity Commission	50	45	44300	38040
In post	2026	Analysis	Competition and Markets Authority	Competition and Markets Authority	155	150	69240	66170
In post	2026	Analysis	Department for Business and Trade	Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service	20	20	49120	48750
In post	2026	Analysis	Department for Business and Trade	Companies House	35	30	46780	46800
In post	2026	Analysis	Department for Business and Trade	Department for Business and Trade (excl. agencies)	525	515	59750	63240
In post	2026	Analysis	Department for Business and Trade	The Insolvency Service	40	35	48740	49630
In post	2026	Analysis	Department for Culture, Media and Sport	Department for Culture, Media and Sport	65	65	53450	49040
In post	2026	Analysis	Department for Education	Department for Education (excl. agencies)	595	570	53730	52800
In post	2026	Analysis	Department for Education	Skills England	5	5	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Analysis	Department for Education	Standards and Testing Agency	5	5	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Analysis	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero	655	640	59920	61830
In post	2026	Analysis	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	Animal and Plant Health Agency	235	230	40370	38910
In post	2026	Analysis	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (excl. agencies)	710	680	50970	46500
In post	2026	Analysis	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	Rural Payments Agency	145	140	36200	34870
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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.
Organisation	Executive Agencies, Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments, Crown Non-departmental Public Bodies.
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.
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).