FOI reference: FOI-2026-3778
You asked
For the last three months, please provide the number of people recruited or engaged into delivery positions working in, or working on, Census Test delivery, including IT department roles supporting Census Test delivery. This should include roles such as business analysts, delivery managers, project managers and testing.
For these roles, please provide the role title, start date and the route used to fill the position.
Where a role was filled through an agency or other contingent labour arrangement, please confirm whether the role had previously been advertised through fair and open Civil Service recruitment. Where fair and open recruitment was not used, please provide any available recorded decision, justification or approval explaining why that recruitment route was chosen.
I am also interested in the role these people are actually filling within Census Test delivery, rather than only the title used when they were recruited or engaged.
We said
Thank you for your request.
We have interpreted your request to focus on roles in the Government Digital and Data (GDD) Profession, as this is where the Census Test Delivery function primarily sits.
Please see the associated download, containing a list of all Census-funded GDD roles received by recruitment between June 2026 and 16 October 2026. Any other campaigns advertised in this time window would have been received before June 2026. Each of the lines in the associated download represents one role.