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Statistics: school workforce

Statistics on the size and characteristics of the schools’ workforce in state-funded schools.

From:
Department for Education
Published
4 October 2013
Last updated
4 June 2026 — See all updates

The number and characteristics of teachers, teaching assistants and other non-classroom-based school support staff, collected through the annual school workforce census.

This collection includes:

  • teachers’ salaries
  • qualifications
  • sickness absence levels
  • number of teaching vacancies

For secondary school teachers, we publish statistics on:

  • the curriculum subject taught
  • whether teachers have qualifications in the subjects they teach
  • the hours spent teaching by subject

Statistics from May 2010 onwards are available on °Ç¸ç³Ô¹Ï. You can find our .

Further documents analysing the teacher workforce are available.

Documents

Updates to this page

Published 4 October 2013
Last updated 4 June 2026 Show all updates

  1. Added 'School workforce in England: November 2025'.

  2. Added 'School workforce in England: November 2024'.

  3. Added 'School workforce in England: November 2023'.

  4. Added 'School workforce in England: November 2022' and a link to Explore Education Statistics (EES).

  5. Added 'School workforce in England: November 2021'.

  6. Added national statistics publication 'School workforce in England: November 2020'.

  7. Added 'School workforce in England: November 2019' to the collection.

  8. Added 'School workforce in England: November 2018'.

  9. Added 2017 statistics, link to teacher workforce statistics and analysis and link to survey.

  10. Added 'School workforce in England: November 2016'.

  11. Added 'School workforce in England: November 2015'.

  12. Added 'School workforce in England: November 2013'.

  13. First published.

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