Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

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Status	Year	Sex	Ethnicity	Responsibility_level_grouped	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2026	Female	Asian	AA/AO	5980	5125	28530	27840
In post	2026	Female	Asian	EO	7915	7120	34110	32140
In post	2026	Female	Asian	G6/G7	3015	2910	68090	65800
In post	2026	Female	Asian	SCS level	185	175	109980	96410
In post	2026	Female	Asian	SEO/HEO	7090	6805	44110	43720
In post	2026	Female	Asian	Unknown	985	915	32300	29460
In post	2026	Female	Black	AA/AO	3675	3375	30380	29610
In post	2026	Female	Black	EO	5095	4785	34530	34170
In post	2026	Female	Black	G6/G7	1290	1265	67090	64820
In post	2026	Female	Black	SCS level	60	55	103980	94590
In post	2026	Female	Black	SEO/HEO	3880	3780	44640	44360
In post	2026	Female	Black	Unknown	1135	1060	35000	31920
In post	2026	Female	Mixed	AA/AO	1360	1210	29330	28020
In post	2026	Female	Mixed	EO	1725	1590	33960	32140
In post	2026	Female	Mixed	G6/G7	1200	1150	68040	65330
In post	2026	Female	Mixed	SCS level	105	100	99840	93340
In post	2026	Female	Mixed	SEO/HEO	2110	2045	44100	43500
In post	2026	Female	Mixed	Unknown	620	570	34920	32150
In post	2026	Female	Other ethnicity	AA/AO	360	320	29720	28020
In post	2026	Female	Other ethnicity	EO	545	505	34620	34170
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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.
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.
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.
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).