Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Profession_of_post

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Status	Year	Profession_of_post	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2026	Actuary	140	130	93030	91640
In post	2026	Clinical	2625	2340	68760	54710
In post	2026	Commercial	7265	7010	55120	48890
In post	2026	Communications	5580	5370	49800	46300
In post	2026	Corporate Finance	225	220	55690	51580
In post	2026	Counter Fraud	13660	12680	37080	32840
In post	2026	Cyber	380	375	57100	56000
In post	2026	Debt	2630	2280	30130	27840
In post	2026	Digital and Data	31475	30680	53080	49120
In post	2026	Economics	3170	3110	57720	58540
In post	2026	Finance	11665	11135	49940	45860
In post	2026	Geography	590	560	39260	38950
In post	2026	Grants	180	170	48120	44450
In post	2026	Human Resources	12890	12250	47300	43130
In post	2026	Inspector of Education and Training	1125	1090	74930	74490
In post	2026	Intelligence Analysis	3805	3625	43380	41460
In post	2026	Internal Audit	765	725	56700	55460
In post	2026	Knowledge and Information Management	3060	2920	42360	38640
In post	2026	Legal	11800	11045	62590	63500
In post	2026	Occupational Psychology	110	100	47790	41630
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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.
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).