Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

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Status Year Sex Responsibility_level_grouped Responsibility_level_ungrouped Region_ITL3 Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2026 Female AA/AO AA Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire 50 40 27530 27740
In post 2026 Female AA/AO AA Angus and Dundee City 325 300 28170 29260
In post 2026 Female AA/AO AA Antrim and Newtownabbey 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female AA/AO AA Ards and North Down 10 5 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female AA/AO AA Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female AA/AO AA Babergh and Mid Suffolk 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female AA/AO AA Barking & Dagenham and Havering [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female AA/AO AA Barnet [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female AA/AO AA Barnsley 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female AA/AO AA Bath & North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire 35 30 30110 30660
In post 2026 Female AA/AO AA Bedford 25 20 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female AA/AO AA Belfast 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female AA/AO AA Berkshire East [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female AA/AO AA Berkshire West 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female AA/AO AA Bexley and Greenwich 140 125 33900 34800
In post 2026 Female AA/AO AA Birmingham 140 120 27590 25010
In post 2026 Female AA/AO AA Blackburn with Darwen [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female AA/AO AA Blackpool 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female AA/AO AA Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female AA/AO AA Bradford 35 25 25850 25010
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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.
Region_ITL3 Workplace postcode data are used to derive geographical information using the International Territorial Level (ITL) classification standard.
Following the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, a new UK-managed international statistical geography - International Territorial Levels (ITL) - was introduced from 1st January 2021, replacing the former NUTS classification. They align with international standards, enabling comparability both over time and internationally. To ensure continued alignment, the ITLs mirror the NUTS system. They also follow a similar review timetable - every three years.
ITL 3 divides into counties, unitary authorities, or districts in England (some grouped), groups of unitary authorities in Wales, groups of council areas in Scotland, groups of districts in Northern Ireland.
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).