Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

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

Status Year Sex Responsibility_level_grouped Sexual_orientation Function_of_post Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2026 Female AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Analysis 130 120 28190 28020
In post 2026 Female AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Commercial 90 75 28200 27130
In post 2026 Female AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Communications 135 115 27810 27500
In post 2026 Female AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Counter Fraud 870 705 28490 27840
In post 2026 Female AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Debt 2030 1695 28240 28020
In post 2026 Female AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Digital and Data 225 200 28780 29030
In post 2026 Female AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Finance 235 210 28330 27840
In post 2026 Female AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Grants 415 350 26030 26030
In post 2026 Female AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Internal Audit [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Legal 700 625 27760 28000
In post 2026 Female AA/AO Heterosexual / straight No function 38810 33375 29060 27840
In post 2026 Female AA/AO Heterosexual / straight People 490 430 28590 28020
In post 2026 Female AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Project Delivery 145 130 27650 27670
In post 2026 Female AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Property 405 365 27490 27840
In post 2026 Female AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Security 515 475 32050 29030
In post 2026 Female AA/AO Heterosexual / straight Unknown 1495 1340 29000 29260
In post 2026 Female AA/AO LGBO Analysis 25 25 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female AA/AO LGBO Commercial 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female AA/AO LGBO Communications 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Female AA/AO LGBO Counter Fraud 50 40 28430 27840
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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.
Function_of_post Functions relate to the post occupied by the person and are not dependent on qualifications the individual may have.
Of the 21 bodies under the Scottish Government, 16 did not report any functions information for their employees.
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.
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).