Civil Servant Salary in East Midlands

What most civil servants actually earn

Half of civil servants across the UK earn between £27,228 and £40,534. Earning above £40,534 puts you in the top quarter of the profession.

This range is UK-wide — ONS publishes no regional breakdown of the spread for this occupation.

Where this figure comes from

ONS occupation group

National government administrative occupations

SOC 2020 code

4111

Measure

Gross annual pay, all employees

Edition

ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, 2025 provisional

ONS publishes a sampling error of 10.6% for this figure and asks that anything above 10% is treated as imprecise — too few people in this region answered the survey for this occupation. The figure is shown because it is the one ONS published, but it is not firm enough to rank East Midlands against anywhere else, so this page doesn't.

ONS doesn't measure “civil servant” as its own category. These figures are for the wider group “National government administrative occupations”, which includes this role alongside others. ONS measures national government administrative occupations - administrative grades, not the senior civil service.

Source: Office for National Statistics, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Figures are estimates from a survey of PAYE jobs and are not financial advice.