Pay & finance29 June 202626 reads

Civil Service Pensions

The Civil Service Pension Recovery Plan has been updated. This plan aims to guide civil servants on pension matters. The updates provide necessary information for those affected by the plan. Public-sector jobseekers can find relevant guidance on the plan's webpage. The webpage offers the latest news and advice on civil service pensions.

What this means if you're looking for Civil Service work

GovJobs is tracking 360 open Civil Service vacancies today, 155 of them added in the past seven days. Across the adverts that publish a salary, the median advertised starting figure is £37,417.

The organisations recruiting most heavily right now are Ministry of Justice (198), UK Research and Innovation (31), Scottish Government (27) and Defence Equipment & Support (21).

Geographically the roles cluster in London (47), South East (41), South West (33), Scotland (32).

Pension changes apply to the scheme, not to a particular vacancy, so they will not appear in any advert. Treat the scheme as part of the package when you compare roles — it is usually the largest part of public-sector reward that never shows up in the salary line.

Worth reading first: Public-sector pensions explained, How to apply for a Civil Service job and Civil Service grades explained.

These figures are counted from the GovJobs index at the time you loaded this page, not from official statistics, and they change daily. They are our own analysis and are not part of the announcement summarised above.

Summarised by GovJobs from GOV.UK, under the Open Government Licence (OGL v3). Drafted with AI from the official source material.

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