Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

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

Status Year Responsibility_level_ungrouped Age Responsibility_level_grouped Disability Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2026 AA 16-19 AA/AO Declared disabled 10 5 [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA 16-19 AA/AO Declared non-disabled 55 55 28940 29430
In post 2026 AA 16-19 AA/AO Undeclared [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 AA 16-19 AA/AO Unknown 35 30 27540 27740
In post 2026 AA 20-29 AA/AO Declared disabled 265 255 29440 30660
In post 2026 AA 20-29 AA/AO Declared non-disabled 1355 1325 29420 30660
In post 2026 AA 20-29 AA/AO Undeclared 70 65 29040 30660
In post 2026 AA 20-29 AA/AO Unknown 755 730 29130 29260
In post 2026 AA 30-39 AA/AO Declared disabled 270 255 29190 29260
In post 2026 AA 30-39 AA/AO Declared non-disabled 1305 1240 29560 30660
In post 2026 AA 30-39 AA/AO Undeclared 90 90 29530 30660
In post 2026 AA 30-39 AA/AO Unknown 735 685 29470 29260
In post 2026 AA 40-49 AA/AO Declared disabled 315 285 28820 29260
In post 2026 AA 40-49 AA/AO Declared non-disabled 1410 1315 29390 30660
In post 2026 AA 40-49 AA/AO Undeclared 150 135 29560 30660
In post 2026 AA 40-49 AA/AO Unknown 610 570 29580 29260
In post 2026 AA 50-59 AA/AO Declared disabled 585 525 28660 27990
In post 2026 AA 50-59 AA/AO Declared non-disabled 2225 2070 28920 28430
In post 2026 AA 50-59 AA/AO Undeclared 310 285 30150 30660
In post 2026 AA 50-59 AA/AO Unknown 890 830 29340 29260
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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.
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.
Age Age in 10 year bands. Age is calculated as at the reference date in each year (31st March), so entrants or leavers may have been up to one year younger at the date of exit or entry.
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).