Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

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Status	Year	Profession_of_post	Responsibility_level_grouped	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2026	Actuary	EO	5	5	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Actuary	G6/G7	115	105	102310	96570
In post	2026	Actuary	SCS level	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Actuary	SEO/HEO	20	20	45420	42630
In post	2026	Clinical	AA/AO	345	315	28970	28990
In post	2026	Clinical	EO	315	285	37640	37800
In post	2026	Clinical	G6/G7	865	755	91700	95840
In post	2026	Clinical	SCS level	305	275	134660	134990
In post	2026	Clinical	SEO/HEO	790	710	47870	47180
In post	2026	Clinical	Unknown	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Commercial	AA/AO	290	265	28570	28500
In post	2026	Commercial	EO	650	620	32190	31440
In post	2026	Commercial	G6/G7	2450	2390	71880	72810
In post	2026	Commercial	SCS level	280	275	119840	114760
In post	2026	Commercial	SEO/HEO	3550	3415	44640	44450
In post	2026	Commercial	Unknown	45	45	68800	46000
In post	2026	Communications	AA/AO	270	255	29090	29030
In post	2026	Communications	EO	555	530	32550	31660
In post	2026	Communications	G6/G7	1455	1410	67740	65470
In post	2026	Communications	SCS level	125	125	101950	94670
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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.
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).