Public sector employment in Scotland: statistics for first quarter 2021

4. Reserved Public Sector Employment in Scotland; Headcount

(see Table 4)

The number of people employed in the reserved public sector in March 2021 was 54,900, which is 970 (1.8%) higher than in March 2020.

Chart 5 shows the size of each group in the reserved public sector as at March 2021.

Source: Public Sector Employment in Scotland, Quarter 1 2021

Note: Totals may not equal the sum of the individual parts due to rounding.

The increase over the year in the overall reserved public sector headcount was due to:

• Employment levels for Other Public Sector^[9] increasing by 440 (2.2%) from 19,800 in March 2020 to 20,200 in March 2021;
• Employment levels for the Reserved Civil Service increasing by 530 (2.2%) to 24,800 in March 2021;

while

• Employment levels for the Armed Forces remained unchanged at 9,800.