Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Profession_of_post / Sex

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Status	Year	Profession_of_post	Sex	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2026	Actuary	Female	65	55	90390	91640
In post	2026	Actuary	Male	80	75	95190	91640
In post	2026	Clinical	Female	1900	1670	63840	49220
In post	2026	Clinical	Male	725	665	81610	75710
In post	2026	Commercial	Female	4025	3820	52820	47950
In post	2026	Commercial	Male	3235	3190	57990	50190
In post	2026	Commercial	Unknown	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Communications	Female	3500	3320	49450	46180
In post	2026	Communications	Male	2080	2050	50400	46630
In post	2026	Corporate Finance	Female	105	100	54150	54580
In post	2026	Corporate Finance	Male	120	115	57070	50150
In post	2026	Counter Fraud	Female	7430	6700	36230	32230
In post	2026	Counter Fraud	Male	6230	5980	38100	35750
In post	2026	Cyber	Female	160	155	55830	55170
In post	2026	Cyber	Male	220	220	58010	57500
In post	2026	Debt	Female	1710	1410	30040	27840
In post	2026	Debt	Male	920	870	30290	27840
In post	2026	Digital and Data	Female	11365	10865	52330	48030
In post	2026	Digital and Data	Male	20105	19805	53510	49480
In post	2026	Digital and Data	Unknown	10	10	[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).
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.
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.
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).