Public Sector Employment in Scotland Statistics for 2nd Quarter 2025
Statistics based on administrative records and surveys of individual public sector bodies carried out by the Scottish Government and the Office for National Statistics (ONS). This is a snapshot of employment as at June 2025.
Reserved Public Sector Employment in Scotland; Headcount
The reserved public sector employment includes:
- Reserved Civil Service
- Armed Forces
- Other Public Sector (which covers, Non-Departmental Bodies, Public Corporations and Other Bodies)
The number of people employed in the reserved public sector in June 2025 was 48,600. This was slightly higher (0.1%) than in June 2024.
Figure 7: Reserved Civil Service employs the largest number of people in the Reserved Public Sector
Breakdown of Reserved Public Sector employment (Headcount) in Scotland as at June 2025
Source: Public Sector Employment in Scotland, Quarter 2 2025.
The slight increase over the year in the overall reserved public sector headcount was due to the following changes (changes are given from June 2024 to June 2025):
- employment in Armed Forces decreased by 270 (-2.7%) to 9,700
- employment in Other Public Sector decreased by 80 (-0.6%) to 11,700
- employment in the Reserved Civil Service increased by 380 (1.4%) to 27,200
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