Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

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Status	Year	Profession_of_post	Parent_department	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2026	Actuary	Chancellor’s other departments	140	130	93030	91640
In post	2026	Clinical	Cabinet Office	10	10	53870	47950
In post	2026	Clinical	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	5	5	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Clinical	Department for Transport	50	40	88020	99330
In post	2026	Clinical	Department for Work and Pensions	45	40	68770	71170
In post	2026	Clinical	Department of Health and Social Care	590	540	101250	105340
In post	2026	Clinical	Ministry of Defence	1740	1525	58600	46580
In post	2026	Clinical	Welsh Government	185	175	56820	56450
In post	2026	Commercial	Attorney General’s Departments	55	50	48160	44020
In post	2026	Commercial	Cabinet Office	2255	2210	71270	73800
In post	2026	Commercial	Chancellor’s other departments	20	20	59380	57640
In post	2026	Commercial	Charity Commission	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Commercial	Competition and Markets Authority	10	10	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Commercial	Department for Business and Trade	85	85	47240	47270
In post	2026	Commercial	Department for Culture, Media and Sport	30	30	55690	47310
In post	2026	Commercial	Department for Education	160	155	49160	45220
In post	2026	Commercial	Department for Energy Security and Net Zero	40	35	55280	49130
In post	2026	Commercial	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	295	280	39620	38800
In post	2026	Commercial	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology	100	95	47840	45680
In post	2026	Commercial	Department for Transport	340	320	45840	44240
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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.
Profession_of_post	Professions relate to the post occupied by the person and are not dependent on qualifications the individual may have.
	Three bodies did not report any professions information for their employees. These are as follows: Scottish Forestry, Forestry and Land Scotland and Serious Fraud Office.
	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).