Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

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Status	Year	Sex	Responsibility_level_grouped	Ethnicity	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2026	Female	AA/AO	Asian	5980	5125	28530	27840
In post	2026	Female	AA/AO	Black	3675	3375	30380	29610
In post	2026	Female	AA/AO	Mixed	1360	1210	29330	28020
In post	2026	Female	AA/AO	Other ethnicity	360	320	29720	28020
In post	2026	Female	AA/AO	Undeclared	1885	1575	28730	27840
In post	2026	Female	AA/AO	Unknown	11945	10775	28880	28020
In post	2026	Female	AA/AO	White	46305	39570	28940	27840
In post	2026	Female	EO	Asian	7915	7120	34110	32140
In post	2026	Female	EO	Black	5095	4785	34530	34170
In post	2026	Female	EO	Mixed	1725	1590	33960	32140
In post	2026	Female	EO	Other ethnicity	545	505	34620	34170
In post	2026	Female	EO	Undeclared	2675	2330	34090	32140
In post	2026	Female	EO	Unknown	8835	8300	33970	32230
In post	2026	Female	EO	White	51025	45485	33310	32140
In post	2026	Female	G6/G7	Asian	3015	2910	68090	65800
In post	2026	Female	G6/G7	Black	1290	1265	67090	64820
In post	2026	Female	G6/G7	Mixed	1200	1150	68040	65330
In post	2026	Female	G6/G7	Other ethnicity	320	310	68680	66590
In post	2026	Female	G6/G7	Undeclared	1120	1055	68570	65870
In post	2026	Female	G6/G7	Unknown	4995	4785	67860	64780
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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).