Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Responsibility_level_grouped / Disability / Responsibility_level_ungrouped / Ethnicity

Status Year Responsibility_level_grouped Disability Responsibility_level_ungrouped Ethnicity Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2026 AA/AO Declared disabled AA Asian 80 70 28770 27770
In post 2026 AA/AO Declared disabled AA Black 70 65 31320 30660
In post 2026 AA/AO Declared disabled AA Mixed 55 50 28770 27770
In post 2026 AA/AO Declared disabled AA Other ethnicity 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA/AO Declared disabled AA Undeclared 50 45 29710 30660
In post 2026 AA/AO Declared disabled AA Unknown 70 60 28950 29260
In post 2026 AA/AO Declared disabled AA White 1685 1480 28580 29260
In post 2026 AA/AO Declared disabled AO Asian 1135 985 28680 27840
In post 2026 AA/AO Declared disabled AO Black 570 500 30380 29720
In post 2026 AA/AO Declared disabled AO Mixed 430 385 29440 27840
In post 2026 AA/AO Declared disabled AO Other ethnicity 85 75 29400 27840
In post 2026 AA/AO Declared disabled AO Undeclared 665 580 29360 27840
In post 2026 AA/AO Declared disabled AO Unknown 435 390 29510 28020
In post 2026 AA/AO Declared disabled AO White 12805 11225 29030 27840
In post 2026 AA/AO Declared non-disabled AA Asian 475 435 29220 28630
In post 2026 AA/AO Declared non-disabled AA Black 715 690 30890 30660
In post 2026 AA/AO Declared non-disabled AA Mixed 135 125 29750 30660
In post 2026 AA/AO Declared non-disabled AA Other ethnicity 55 50 30710 30660
In post 2026 AA/AO Declared non-disabled AA Undeclared 150 130 28130 27650
In post 2026 AA/AO Declared non-disabled AA Unknown 160 140 28460 27650
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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.
Responsibility_level_ungrouped 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_ungrouped shows the mapped grades at a higher level of detail, however not all Government Departments / bodies have distinct grades that map exactly to these levels so figures should be considered as approximations and treated with caution.
Ethnicity Self reported ethnicity. "Undeclared" accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their ethnicity and "Unknown" accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their ethnicity.
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.
Disability Self reported disability.
"Undeclared" accounts for employees who have actively declared that they do not want to disclose their disability status and "Unknown" accounts for employees who have not made an active declaration about their disability status.
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).