Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Sex / Parent_department / Responsibility_level_grouped / Sexual_orientation

Status Year Sex Parent_department Responsibility_level_grouped Sexual_orientation Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2026 Female Attorney General’s Departments AA/AO Heterosexual / straight 685 610 27740 26700
In post 2026 Female Attorney General’s Departments AA/AO LGBO 45 45 27480 26700
In post 2026 Female Attorney General’s Departments AA/AO Undeclared 30 30 28080 28500
In post 2026 Female Attorney General’s Departments AA/AO Unknown 500 470 27230 26700
In post 2026 Female Attorney General’s Departments EO Heterosexual / straight 1035 960 32800 32430
In post 2026 Female Attorney General’s Departments EO LGBO 70 65 32910 32430
In post 2026 Female Attorney General’s Departments EO Undeclared 55 50 33000 32430
In post 2026 Female Attorney General’s Departments EO Unknown 540 510 32940 32430
In post 2026 Female Attorney General’s Departments G6/G7 Heterosexual / straight 2610 2380 67500 65820
In post 2026 Female Attorney General’s Departments G6/G7 LGBO 125 120 68310 67370
In post 2026 Female Attorney General’s Departments G6/G7 Undeclared 150 145 68060 65820
In post 2026 Female Attorney General’s Departments G6/G7 Unknown 905 815 67170 63500
In post 2026 Female Attorney General’s Departments SCS level Heterosexual / straight 160 150 98750 92000
In post 2026 Female Attorney General’s Departments SCS level LGBO 10 5 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female Attorney General’s Departments SCS level Undeclared 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female Attorney General’s Departments SCS level Unknown 45 45 95720 92000
In post 2026 Female Attorney General’s Departments SEO/HEO Heterosexual / straight 730 705 41370 39890
In post 2026 Female Attorney General’s Departments SEO/HEO LGBO 65 60 41860 43500
In post 2026 Female Attorney General’s Departments SEO/HEO Undeclared 40 35 41180 39890
In post 2026 Female Attorney General’s Departments SEO/HEO Unknown 310 300 42970 44520
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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).
Parent_department Government Department, total figures for both Ministerial and Non-Ministerial Departments include all of their Executive Agencies.
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.
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).