There were 41,633 civil servants, employed across the Civil Service on a full- time equivalent (FTE) basis, as of end-March 2020, the most recent quarterly figures available.
The attached file sets out a breakdown of such civil servants, by grade and by gender, in each of the Government Departments and associated offices, bodies and agencies. Numbers are shown as full-time equivalents and are rounded to the nearest unit. Explanations for abbreviated grade names are given at the end of the file.
Civil Service Grade Numbers by Department