Teachers and teacher vacancies in state-funded schools, England
Accredited official statistics
Full-time equivalent teachers in England's state-funded schools each November since 2010, classroom and leadership teachers among them, and the teacher vacancies the schools reported, from the DfE's school workforce census.
Full-time equivalent teachers
466,372.34
2025/26 · 1,615 vacancies, a rate of 0.35%
Verified against source, 9 November 2026, 14:55 UTC- All teachers
- Classroom teachers
- Leadership teachers
- Teacher vacancies
Source: Department for Education. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
16 periods, newest first
| Period | All teachers | Classroom teachers | Leadership teachers | Teacher vacancies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 466,372.34 | 393,203.95 | 73,168.39 | 1,615 |
| 2024/25 | 468,279.33 | 394,692.86 | 73,586.47 | 2,173 |
| 2023/24 | 468,694.29 | 395,724.37 | 72,969.92 | 2,802 |
| 2022/23 | 468,429.52 | 396,737.5 | 71,692.01 | 2,334 |
| 2021/22 | 465,588.48 | 394,806.46 | 70,782.02 | 1,564 |
| 2020/21 | 461,102.44 | 390,879.74 | 70,222.7 | 1,098 |
| 2019/20 | 453,818.08 | 383,764.49 | 70,053.59 | 1,143 |
| 2018/19 | 453,410.78 | 383,373.37 | 70,037.4 | 1,161 |
| 2017/18 | 451,962.81 | 382,523.7 | 69,439.12 | 1,137 |
| 2016/17 | 457,383.32 | 387,832.55 | 69,550.77 | 1,116 |
| 2015/16 | 456,972.83 | 388,112.83 | 68,860.01 | 875 |
| 2014/15 | 455,407.27 | 388,144.41 | 67,262.86 | 902 |
| 2013/14 | 449,628.53 | 384,716.7 | 64,911.84 | 895 |
| 2012/13 | 445,218.89 | 381,881.36 | 63,337.53 | 539 |
| 2011/12 | 439,245.51 | 376,669.05 | 62,576.46 | 420 |
| 2010/11 | 441,439.6 | 378,814.14 | 62,625.46 | 452 |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Department for Education
- Check it yourself
- https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 9 November 2026, 14:51 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://content.explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/api/data-set-files?publicationId=b318967f-2931-472a-93f2-fbed1e181e6a&latestOnly=true&pageSize=40&page=1SHA-256 f6dd838435dccc1300c5eff1899218df7d409d9b76291aa4d26b35bacba78f53 · 48,644 bytes
- https://content.explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/api/releases/32476c77-5ff3-4efb-ad1e-a2173e74a4d4/files?fileIds=df03b3e5-aaa5-4541-66d7-08deb7f62bfbSHA-256 802139b81a6cdae1659239255964ebff2b839ccb442924dadb27a9db56e72e96 · 6,078,087 bytes
- https://content.explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/api/releases/32476c77-5ff3-4efb-ad1e-a2173e74a4d4/files?fileIds=c39762f4-daad-4db0-3903-08debb131131SHA-256 847f11be33d1305fc0e2995f9f6fc85ffb90ce725df8c96bd143a45cde269ef0 · 552,767 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 9 November 2026, 14:55 UTC Run at 9 November 2026, 14:55 UTC; 64 of 64 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Department for Education; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-09T14:51:16Z; 3 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 3 of 3 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 64 of 64 figures and the headline reproduced; the meta's vacancy_rate match |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 64 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 64 of 64 figures match exactly after downloading 3 source file(s) again (1 byte-identical); the headline matches; the meta's vacancy_rate match |
| Pass | EES file is current | the latest period, 2025/26, ended on 2025-11-30, 344 days before retrieval (limit 600), from Reporting year 2025 |
| Pass | The release's key statistics agree | 4 of 4 cases of the release's key statistics (https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england/2025) equal the files' figures within half the last place each is written to and half the files' |
| Pass | Classroom and leadership teachers add up to all teachers | 16 of 16 cases of the years' full-time equivalent classroom and leadership teachers add up to all teachers within the hundredths each is given to within 0.015 (11 exactly) |
| Pass | The regions' vacancies add up to England's | 16 of 16 cases of the years' teacher vacancies in England's nine regions (London as Inner and Outer London where the DfE gives it so) add up to England's |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-workforce-in-england – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Teachers in England's state-funded schools in November of the first year shown (the school workforce census), as full-time equivalents: all teachers, and the classroom teachers and leadership teachers (head, deputy and assistant head teachers) among them.
- Vacancies are the full-time teacher vacancies, advertised or not, that schools reported on census day; the DfE's rate is vacancies as a percentage of teachers in post.