Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

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Status	Year	Function_of_post	Parent_department	Sex	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2026	Analysis	Attorney General’s Departments	Female	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Analysis	Attorney General’s Departments	Male	5	5	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Analysis	Cabinet Office	Female	220	220	42660	35000
In post	2026	Analysis	Cabinet Office	Male	310	310	43320	35000
In post	2026	Analysis	Chancellor’s other departments	Female	85	80	79530	78610
In post	2026	Analysis	Chancellor’s other departments	Male	125	120	78790	73910
In post	2026	Analysis	Charity Commission	Female	30	25	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Analysis	Charity Commission	Male	20	20	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Analysis	Competition and Markets Authority	Female	70	65	69570	66170
In post	2026	Analysis	Competition and Markets Authority	Male	85	85	68990	66170
In post	2026	Analysis	Department for Business and Trade	Female	285	275	56920	53540
In post	2026	Analysis	Department for Business and Trade	Male	330	330	58990	62030
In post	2026	Analysis	Department for Culture, Media and Sport	Female	35	35	52080	48950
In post	2026	Analysis	Department for Culture, Media and Sport	Male	30	30	54950	50430
In post	2026	Analysis	Department for Education	Female	325	300	53880	52800
In post	2026	Analysis	Department for Education	Male	285	280	53810	51670
In post	2026	Analysis	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero	Female	270	260	58940	55890
In post	2026	Analysis	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero	Male	380	380	60610	63590
In post	2026	Analysis	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	Female	545	515	47520	43260
In post	2026	Analysis	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	Male	565	555	46410	43080
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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.
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.
Sex	Self reported sex.
	"Unknown" accounts for employees who were recorded with an unknown sex.
	Figures on sex presented here are based on management information provided by departments, which records the ‘legal sex’ of civil servants. ‘Legal sex’ does not align with ‘sex’ as defined by The Equality Act 2010.
	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).