UK Government Organogram: Staff Roles and Senior Civil Servant Salaries

Organogram data from UK central government departments and agencies, showing all staff roles and listing names and salaries for Senior Civil Servants. Snapshots are published biannually for 31st March and 30th September, validated and released in CSV format under an OGL-UK-3.0 license. The data series has been published since 2010 by entities such as Sport England.

Use Cases

• Analyze government workforce structure based on the published organogram hierarchy.
• Study salary distribution for Senior Civil Servants based on the listed names and salaries.
• Track changes in departmental staffing over time based on the biannual snapshot schedule.
• Assess government transparency and accountability based on the public release of organizational data.

Strengths

• Data is validated before release, suggesting a level of quality control.
• Published biannually since 2010, providing a potential time series for longitudinal analysis.
• Released under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license, facilitating reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal and institutional bias inherent to the UK government reporting.

Provenance

Source

UK central government departments and their agencies, via the uk_data platform.

Collection Method

Official reporting and validation by government entities.

Time Range

Biannual snapshots from 2010 onward.

Freshness

Snapshots are published biannually; last metadata update was 2026-07-08.

Geography

United Kingdom (central government).