Data set from School workforce in England

Specialist teachers in state funded secondary schools

Not the latest data

Published 9 June 2022

Last updated 9 June 2022

% of hours taught by a teacher with qualification in relevant subject and the % of teachers holding qualification in relevant subject by highest qualification of teacher and subject taught.

---

On this page

Data set details

• Theme: Teachers and school workforce
• Publication: School workforce in England
• Release: Reporting year 2021
• Geographic levels: National
• Indicators:
  • Percentage of hours taught by teacher with qualification
  • Percentage of teachers with qualification
• Filters:
  • Highest qualification of teacher
  • Subject taught
• Time period: 2014/15 to 2021/22

---

Data set preview

Table showing first 5 rows, from underlying data

time_period	time_identifier	geographic_level	country_code	country_name	subject	highest_qualification	%_teachers	%_hours
202122	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Mathematics	Any relevant post A level qualification	80.8	88.4
202122	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	English	Any relevant post A level qualification	83.9	92.6
202122	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Physics	Any relevant post A level qualification	59.4	72.4
202122	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Chemistry	Any relevant post A level qualification	75	83.4
202122	Academic year	National	E92000001	England	Biology	Any relevant post A level qualification	89.8	93.5

---

Variables in this data set

Table showing all 4 variables

Variable name	Variable description
%_hours	Percentage of hours taught by teacher with qualification
%_teachers	Percentage of teachers with qualification
highest_qualification	Highest qualification of teacher
subject	Subject taught

---

Footnotes

1. Teachers were counted once against each subject and key stage they taught, irrespective of the time spent teaching. Therefore teachers may be counted against multiple subjects and key stages so sums of these categories will be greater than the number of secondary school teachers.
2. To reduce burden during the COVID-19 pandemic, schools and LAs were not required to provide information on teacher qualifications in the 2020 census.

---

Using this data

• Download the underlying data as a compressed ZIP file

• View or create your own tables

  View tables that we have built for you, or create your own tables from open data using our table tool

Download this data using code

Access this data using common programming languages using the URL below.

Example code

---