Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Function_of_post / Responsibility_level_grouped / Responsibility_level_ungrouped / Sex

Status Year Function_of_post Responsibility_level_grouped Responsibility_level_ungrouped Sex Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2026 Analysis AA/AO AA Female 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Analysis AA/AO AA Male 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Analysis AA/AO AO Female 225 200 28120 28020
In post 2026 Analysis AA/AO AO Male 210 205 28060 28020
In post 2026 Analysis EO EO Female 730 665 32150 32140
In post 2026 Analysis EO EO Male 765 730 32040 32140
In post 2026 Analysis G6/G7 G6 Female 530 490 79400 77420
In post 2026 Analysis G6/G7 G6 Male 655 640 81450 79190
In post 2026 Analysis G6/G7 G7 Female 1720 1610 63200 62960
In post 2026 Analysis G6/G7 G7 Male 2065 2015 63770 63620
In post 2026 Analysis SCS level SCS level Female 135 125 97510 92410
In post 2026 Analysis SCS level SCS level Male 180 175 97490 91730
In post 2026 Analysis SEO/HEO HEO Female 1785 1700 38920 38910
In post 2026 Analysis SEO/HEO HEO Male 2230 2195 38880 38940
In post 2026 Analysis SEO/HEO SEO Female 1895 1795 47780 47470
In post 2026 Analysis SEO/HEO SEO Male 1910 1885 48210 47730
In post 2026 Commercial AA/AO AA Female [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Commercial AA/AO AA Male [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Commercial AA/AO AO Female 155 135 28870 28100
In post 2026 Commercial AA/AO AO Male 105 100 28840 28100
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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.
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).