Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

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

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Status	Year	Function_of_post	Sex	Sexual_orientation	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2026	Analysis	Female	Heterosexual / straight	4690	4370	51850	48030
In post	2026	Analysis	Female	LGBO	665	645	48510	45550
In post	2026	Analysis	Female	Undeclared	610	575	49920	46610
In post	2026	Analysis	Female	Unknown	1055	1000	45190	41730
In post	2026	Analysis	Male	Heterosexual / straight	5295	5175	52590	48150
In post	2026	Analysis	Male	LGBO	545	540	50310	46080
In post	2026	Analysis	Male	Undeclared	715	690	52140	48110
In post	2026	Analysis	Male	Unknown	1485	1455	46790	42780
In post	2026	Analysis	Unknown	Heterosexual / straight	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Analysis	Unknown	LGBO	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Commercial	Female	Heterosexual / straight	2980	2830	53140	47750
In post	2026	Commercial	Female	LGBO	175	175	53210	47680
In post	2026	Commercial	Female	Undeclared	270	245	50670	48230
In post	2026	Commercial	Female	Unknown	710	690	52640	47680
In post	2026	Commercial	Male	Heterosexual / straight	2320	2285	59180	50190
In post	2026	Commercial	Male	LGBO	185	185	54160	48520
In post	2026	Commercial	Male	Undeclared	235	230	55800	48500
In post	2026	Commercial	Male	Unknown	700	695	57230	50190
In post	2026	Commercial	Unknown	Heterosexual / straight	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Commercial	Unknown	LGBO	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
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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.
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.
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).