Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Region_london / Responsibility_level_grouped / Sexual_orientation

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Status	Year	Region_london	Responsibility_level_grouped	Sexual_orientation	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2026	London	AA/AO	Heterosexual / straight	7460	6885	33510	31670
In post	2026	London	AA/AO	LGBO	380	360	33180	31470
In post	2026	London	AA/AO	Undeclared	990	885	31930	31150
In post	2026	London	AA/AO	Unknown	2750	2550	32630	31470
In post	2026	London	EO	Heterosexual / straight	13485	12680	37580	37020
In post	2026	London	EO	LGBO	795	775	37380	37020
In post	2026	London	EO	Undeclared	1835	1700	37500	37020
In post	2026	London	EO	Unknown	3865	3670	36700	35550
In post	2026	London	G6/G7	Heterosexual / straight	21245	20515	71090	68410
In post	2026	London	G6/G7	LGBO	2330	2290	69340	67000
In post	2026	London	G6/G7	Undeclared	3015	2925	70870	68320
In post	2026	London	G6/G7	Unknown	5845	5670	70030	67400
In post	2026	London	SCS level	Heterosexual / straight	3085	2970	103470	94550
In post	2026	London	SCS level	LGBO	305	295	102440	93710
In post	2026	London	SCS level	Undeclared	365	350	106610	95990
In post	2026	London	SCS level	Unknown	660	640	109540	98480
In post	2026	London	SEO/HEO	Heterosexual / straight	22525	21850	47360	46970
In post	2026	London	SEO/HEO	LGBO	2335	2300	46460	46320
In post	2026	London	SEO/HEO	Undeclared	3330	3230	47390	46760
In post	2026	London	SEO/HEO	Unknown	8500	8345	44420	44360
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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.
Region_london	Workplace postcode data are used to derive geographical information using the International Territorial Level (ITL) classification standard.
	Region_london groups the ITL classifications into "London", "Outside London": all UK regions excluding London, "Overseas", and "Unknown".
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).