Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

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Status	Year	Responsibility_level_grouped	Sex	Responsibility_level_ungrouped	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2026	AA/AO	Female	AA	7450	6480	28650	29260
In post	2026	AA/AO	Female	AO	64060	55470	29010	27940
In post	2026	AA/AO	Male	AA	8000	7505	29380	29260
In post	2026	AA/AO	Male	AO	50750	48580	31350	28020
In post	2026	AA/AO	Unknown	AA	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	AA/AO	Unknown	AO	25	25	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	EO	Female	EO	77815	70115	33600	32140
In post	2026	EO	Male	EO	60915	58690	34870	32140
In post	2026	EO	Unknown	EO	120	115	31060	29650
In post	2026	G6/G7	Female	G6	11815	11225	79410	77910
In post	2026	G6/G7	Female	G7	33020	31330	64180	63110
In post	2026	G6/G7	Male	G6	12130	11825	80340	78990
In post	2026	G6/G7	Male	G7	31665	30925	64940	63770
In post	2026	G6/G7	Unknown	G6	55	55	79610	77850
In post	2026	G6/G7	Unknown	G7	155	150	62810	61780
In post	2026	SCS level	Female	SCS level	3865	3685	102100	94360
In post	2026	SCS level	Male	SCS level	3890	3825	106380	96940
In post	2026	SCS level	Unknown	SCS level	15	15	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	SEO/HEO	Female	HEO	49255	46440	40090	38920
In post	2026	SEO/HEO	Female	SEO	39255	37340	48870	47670
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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.
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).