Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Parent_department / Sexual_orientation

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Status	Year	Parent_department	Sexual_orientation	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Heterosexual / straight	7480	6990	53590	56780
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	LGBO	595	575	53150	51540
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Undeclared	425	405	54990	58200
In post	2026	Attorney General’s Departments	Unknown	3905	3700	49240	44520
In post	2026	Cabinet Office	Heterosexual / straight	5695	5540	58540	57250
In post	2026	Cabinet Office	LGBO	655	650	56080	48530
In post	2026	Cabinet Office	Undeclared	510	495	57010	58230
In post	2026	Cabinet Office	Unknown	3375	3345	46190	38000
In post	2026	Chancellor’s other departments	Heterosexual / straight	400	385	67710	56560
In post	2026	Chancellor’s other departments	LGBO	25	25	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Chancellor’s other departments	Undeclared	85	80	67110	62520
In post	2026	Chancellor’s other departments	Unknown	10	10	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Charity Commission	Heterosexual / straight	280	265	44200	38040
In post	2026	Charity Commission	LGBO	25	25	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Charity Commission	Undeclared	20	20	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Charity Commission	Unknown	115	110	42320	38040
In post	2026	Competition and Markets Authority	Heterosexual / straight	780	755	70930	66170
In post	2026	Competition and Markets Authority	LGBO	95	95	64990	64430
In post	2026	Competition and Markets Authority	Undeclared	95	90	69870	66170
In post	2026	Department for Business and Trade	Heterosexual / straight	7085	6800	49100	46470
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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.
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).