Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Parent_department / Ethnicity / Responsibility_level_grouped / Responsibility_level_ungrouped

Status Year Parent_department Ethnicity Responsibility_level_grouped Responsibility_level_ungrouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments Asian AA/AO AA [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments Asian AA/AO AO 200 185 27970 28500
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments Asian EO EO 240 225 33030 32430
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments Asian G6/G7 G6 125 120 79830 80020
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments Asian G6/G7 G7 490 460 64000 63190
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments Asian SCS level SCS level 20 15 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments Asian SEO/HEO HEO 90 90 39140 38000
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments Asian SEO/HEO SEO 65 65 46210 46150
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments Black AA/AO AA [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments Black AA/AO AO 110 100 28530 28500
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments Black EO EO 140 135 33390 33740
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments Black G6/G7 G6 30 30 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments Black G6/G7 G7 240 230 65660 63850
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments Black SCS level SCS level 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments Black SEO/HEO HEO 65 65 38360 37620
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments Black SEO/HEO SEO 45 45 46230 46240
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments Mixed AA/AO AA [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments Mixed AA/AO AO 35 30 27950 28500
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments Mixed EO EO 70 65 32990 32430
In post 2026 Attorney General’s Departments Mixed G6/G7 G6 40 35 80520 80020
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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.
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.
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.
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).