Data set from School workforce in England

Teacher pay - SWC - school level

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Published 4 June 2026

Last updated 4 June 2026

Full and part-time teachers in state funded schools by grade of teacher, salary bands, average salary, sector, sex and age

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Data set details

• Theme: Teachers and school workforce
• Publication: School workforce in England
• Release: Reporting year 2025
• Number of rows: 347,496
• Geographic levels: School
• Indicators:
  • Headcount of teachers
  • Mean pay
  • Median pay
• Filters:
  • Type of school
• Time period: 2010/11 to 2025/26

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Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	region_code	region_name	old_la_code	new_la_code	la_name	school_laestab	school_urn	school_name	establishment_type_group	headcount_all	average_mean	average_median	teachers_on_leadership_pay_range_percent
202526	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	390	E08000037	Gateshead	3901000	108320	Bensham Grove Nursery School	LA maintained nursery	5	54282.1	u	50
202526	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	390	E08000037	Gateshead	3902194	108356	Washingwell Community Primary School	LA maintained primary	10	49446	u	20
202526	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	390	E08000037	Gateshead	3902056	108333	Ravensworth Terrace Primary School	LA maintained primary	20	50135.6	u	15.7895
202526	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	390	E08000037	Gateshead	3902232	108379	Fell Dyke Community Primary School	LA maintained primary	18	49831.4	u	27.7778
202526	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E12000001	North East	390	E08000037	Gateshead	3902224	108371	Wardley Primary School	LA maintained primary	13	49440.6	u	15.3846

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 5 variables

Variable name	Variable description
average_mean	Mean pay
average_median	Median pay
establishment_type_group	Type of school
headcount_all	Headcount of teachers
teachers_on_leadership_pay_range_percent	Percentage of teachers on leadership pay range

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