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=== Professions ===
The ''lingua franca'' is to describe civil servants, and in particular their grades, predominantly through a lens of administrative activity (as in the current structure of the table above), but in practice the civil service has, and always had, a number of subdivisions, with the Historic Grades having an additional designator (usually omitted for senior managers, but included from middle and junior managers) as shown as "xxx", with the major groupings being:
* Executive ([x]EO)
* Scientific ([x]SO)
* Professional and Technology ([x]PTO)
The Current Structure identifies<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/professions|title=Civil Service professions|date=19 November 2015|access-date=14 June 2016}}</ref> a number of distinct professional groupings:
* Communications and Marketing
* Economics
* Engineering
* Finance
* Human Resources
* Digital, Data and Technology (formerly Information Technology)
* Inspector of Education and Training
* Internal Audit
* Knowledge and Information Management
* Law
* Medicine
* Operational Delivery
* Operational Research
* Policy Delivery
* Procurement and Contract Management
* Programme and Project Management
* Property Asset Management
* Psychology
* Science
* Social Research
* Statistics
* Tax Professionals
* Veterinarian
* Other (for minority groups, such as Investigating Officers)

Recruitment data from the 2018 Civil Service Fast Stream process showed that white applicants were 15 times more likely to be recruited than black candidates.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Martin|first=Amy-Clare|date=2020-07-05|title=White people 15 times more likely than black candidates to get civil service job|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/white-applicants-15-times-more-22305922|access-date=2020-09-02|website=mirror}}</ref>