Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Sexual_orientation / Sex / Parent_department / Responsibility_level_ungrouped

Status Year Sexual_orientation Sex Parent_department Responsibility_level_ungrouped Headcount FTE Mean_salary Median_salary
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Female Attorney General’s Departments AA [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Female Attorney General’s Departments AO 685 610 27740 26700
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Female Attorney General’s Departments EO 1035 960 32800 32430
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Female Attorney General’s Departments G6 630 560 79780 80020
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Female Attorney General’s Departments G7 1985 1820 63600 63190
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Female Attorney General’s Departments HEO 460 440 38830 38000
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Female Attorney General’s Departments SCS level 160 150 98750 92000
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Female Attorney General’s Departments SEO 270 265 45690 44830
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Female Cabinet Office AO 135 120 28050 27410
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Female Cabinet Office EO 325 310 32010 31010
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Female Cabinet Office G6 440 430 77150 75840
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Female Cabinet Office G7 855 825 63990 64120
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Female Cabinet Office HEO 565 540 39220 38600
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Female Cabinet Office SCS level 240 235 101970 94660
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Female Cabinet Office SEO 570 555 46500 47450
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Female Chancellor’s other departments AO [c] [c] [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Female Chancellor’s other departments EO 20 20 [c] [c]
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Female Chancellor’s other departments G6 55 45 97120 93150
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Female Chancellor’s other departments G7 35 35 62680 64860
In post 2026 Heterosexual / straight Female Chancellor’s other departments HEO 35 30 41510 42130
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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_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.
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).