Civil servants by profession, 2025

A bar chart from the Institute for Government of civil servants by profession in 2025 where the operational delivery profession makes up more than half of the total civil service workforce.

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Source: Institute for Government analysis of Cabinet Office, 'Civil Service Statistics', 2025.Notes: All figures in FTE. 'Unknown or other' category includes the profession 'Inspector of Education and Training' which cannot be categorised because the government does not publish this information.Get the dataEmbed Download image