Civil servants by profession, 2016–24

A stacked area chart from the Institute for Government, showing the total size of the civil service between 2016 and 2024. This is broken down into the sizes of the professions making up the civil service. The operational delivery profession is by far the largest in the civil service and has expanded the most over the time period.
Source: Institute for Government analysis of ONS/Cabinet Office, 'Civil Service Statistics', 2016–24.Notes: The professions shown are the 10 which expanded the most, in absolute terms, between 2016 and 2024. The 'Not reported' category includes those reported as 'Other'. Professions data has historically been affected by non-reporting, meaning that trend analysis will not be entirely accurate. See text for more details. All figures are FTE.Get the dataEmbed Download image
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