UK Government Organogram Data with Senior Civil Servant Salaries

Organogram data from all UK central government departments and their agencies, showing staff roles and listing names and salaries for Senior Civil Servants. The data is published as validated CSV files under the OGL license, with snapshots released twice yearly for dates 31st March and 30th September. The dataset is provided by Transport Focus and was last updated on 2026-04-30.

Use Cases

• Analyze government department structures and hierarchies based on the organogram data.
• Study salary distributions and transparency for Senior Civil Servant roles.
• Track changes in government staffing over time using the biannual snapshots.
• Perform cross-departmental comparisons of organizational size and senior staff counts.

Strengths

• Data is validated and released in a standard CSV format for reuse.
• Published under the OGL-UK-3.0 license, facilitating open analysis.
• Regular biannual snapshots (31st March and 30th September) provide temporal coverage since 2010.
• Includes specific salary and name information for Senior Civil Servants.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
• The description metadata is limited to roles and senior salaries; coverage of junior staff details is unclear.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Officially published and validated organogram data.

Time Range

Snapshots available since 2010, with releases for 31st March and 30th September each year.

Freshness

Snapshots are published biannually by 6th June and 6th December; last metadata update was 2026-04-30.

Geography

United Kingdom (central government).