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Statistics: school workforce

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

Updates to this page

From:
Department for Education
Published:
4 October 2013
Last updated:
4 June 2026
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  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.

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 GOV.UK. You can find our archived school workforce statistics on the UK Government Web Archives.

Further documents analysing the teacher workforce are available.

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