Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Sexual_orientation / Responsibility_level_grouped / Ethnicity / Profession_of_post

Status Year Sexual_orientation Responsibility_level_grouped Ethnicity Profession_of_post Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Asian Clinical 30 30 30470 30160
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Asian Commercial 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Asian Communications 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Asian Corporate Finance [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Asian Counter Fraud 175 150 29040 29720
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Asian Cyber [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Asian Debt 270 230 28020 27840
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Asian Digital and Data 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Asian Economics 5 5 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Asian Finance 50 45 29650 29150
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Asian Geography [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Asian Grants [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Asian Human Resources 55 50 29030 28020
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Asian Intelligence Analysis 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Asian Internal Audit [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Asian Knowledge and Information Management 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Asian Legal 15 15 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Asian Operational Delivery 7615 6885 28990 27840
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Asian Operational Research 10 10 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight AA/AO Asian Other 75 70 28780 28120
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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.
Profession_of_post Professions relate to the post occupied by the person and are not dependent on qualifications the individual may have.
Three bodies did not report any professions information for their employees. These are as follows: Scottish Forestry, Forestry and Land Scotland and Serious Fraud Office.
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.
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).