Civil Service Statistics data browser (2026)

Data preview: All civil servants / Sexual_orientation

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Status	Year	Sexual_orientation	Headcount	FTE	Mean_salary	Median_salary
In post	2026	Heterosexual / straight	383960	359895	43070	38090
In post	2026	LGBO	30865	29955	42780	37890
In post	2026	Undeclared	43950	40690	43540	38770
In post	2026	Unknown	99050	93255	41080	36230
Leaver CS	2026	Heterosexual / straight	22245	[c]	41960	35340
Leaver CS	2026	LGBO	1725	[c]	40930	35020
Leaver CS	2026	Undeclared	2860	[c]	41410	34210
Leaver CS	2026	Unknown	11110	[c]	40790	34380
Leaver Dept.	2026	Heterosexual / straight	6760	[c]	48820	43100
Leaver Dept.	2026	LGBO	935	[c]	47290	42810
Leaver Dept.	2026	Undeclared	790	[c]	48330	43840
Leaver Dept.	2026	Unknown	3365	[c]	45840	40100
New entrant CS	2026	Heterosexual / straight	23730	[c]	34800	31100
New entrant CS	2026	LGBO	2930	[c]	33500	30080
New entrant CS	2026	Undeclared	2070	[c]	36430	31180
New entrant CS	2026	Unknown	14125	[c]	35440	30900

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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).
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).