Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

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Status	Year	Sex	Responsibility_level_ungrouped	Responsibility_level_grouped	Parent_department	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2026	Female	AA	AA/AO	Attorney General’s Departments	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Female	AA	AA/AO	Department for Business and Trade	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Female	AA	AA/AO	Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Female	AA	AA/AO	Department for Science, Innovation and Technology	20	20	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Female	AA	AA/AO	Department for Transport	215	150	24360	24350
In post	2026	Female	AA	AA/AO	Department for Work and Pensions	90	60	27770	27770
In post	2026	Female	AA	AA/AO	Department of Health and Social Care	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Female	AA	AA/AO	HM Revenue and Customs	285	195	27820	27770
In post	2026	Female	AA	AA/AO	Home Office	205	165	26210	24510
In post	2026	Female	AA	AA/AO	Ministry of Defence	770	720	28430	27650
In post	2026	Female	AA	AA/AO	Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Female	AA	AA/AO	Ministry of Justice	4275	3805	29440	30660
In post	2026	Female	AA	AA/AO	Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Female	AA	AA/AO	Scottish Government	1410	1260	28070	29260
In post	2026	Female	AA	AA/AO	The National Archives	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Female	AA	AA/AO	UK Statistics Authority	175	100	25430	24920
In post	2026	Female	AO	AA/AO	Attorney General’s Departments	1265	1150	27540	26700
In post	2026	Female	AO	AA/AO	Cabinet Office	175	155	28360	27410
In post	2026	Female	AO	AA/AO	Chancellor’s other departments	[c]	[c]	[c]	[c]
In post	2026	Female	AO	AA/AO	Charity Commission	5	5	[c]	[c]
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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.
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.
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).