Data set from Further education workforce

Characteristics of further education workforce

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Published 14 May 2026

Last updated 14 May 2026

Characteristics of the further education workforce. There are breakdowns for gender, ethnicity, disability status and age.

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Data set details

• Theme: Further education
• Publication: Further education workforce
• Release: Academic year 2024/25
• Number of rows: 73,213
• Geographic levels: National, Regional
• Indicators:
  • Headcount of staff
  • Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) staff
  • Percent of headcount staff within category
• Filters:
  • Name of provider type
  • Type of staff member role
  • Contract type
• Time period: 2021/22 to 2024/25

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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	fe_sector_type	provider_type	main_role_type	contract_type	characteristic	characteristic_type	number_staff_fte	number_staff_hc	perc_fte	perc_hc
202122	Academic year	National	E92000001	England			Statutory sector	General FE College incl Tertiary	Total	Permanent and fixed term	Total	Total	z	100775.436464088	z	57.6655550922198
202122	Academic year	National	E92000001	England			Non statutory sector	Independent Training Provider (ITP)	Total	Permanent and fixed term	Total	Total	z	40730.3337696335	z	23.3066448365548
202122	Academic year	National	E92000001	England			Non statutory sector	Local Authority with an Education Remit	Total	Permanent and fixed term	Total	Total	z	6880.63716814159	z	3.93722692365056
202122	Academic year	National	E92000001	England			Non statutory sector	Other Provider Type	Total	Permanent and fixed term	Total	Total	z	1288	z	0.737017249091713
202122	Academic year	National	E92000001	England			Non statutory sector	School Based Providers	Total	Permanent and fixed term	Total	Total	z	7497	z	4.28992105313709

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Variables in this data set

Table showing first 5 of 8 variables

Variable name	Variable description
characteristic_type	Staff characteristic type - Select the characteristic you are interested in
contract_type	Contract type
main_role_type	Type of staff member role
number_staff_fte	Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) staff
number_staff_hc	Headcount of staff

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Footnotes

1. This release shows data for further education providers in England. The location that a provider is based in has been determined from the main site/head office recorded in the Individualised Learner Record (ILR) database in the Department for Education. This records the main site only and may not cover all locations or regions that a provider operates.
2. All percentages and rates are rounded to 1 decimal place. Where figures have rounded to 0.0%, this may not necessarily indicate zero staff present for this measure.
3. National figures have been scaled to account for providers who did not respond to the Further Education Workforce Data Collection. Therefore national figures are an estimate. Regional figures have not been scaled and are based on responding providers only.
4. Management roles may include some teaching staff with additional responsibilities, or some managers of staff in support or admin roles. The types or number of managers may differ across provider types.
5. The Further Education Data Collection currently collects gender of staff, as opposed to their legal sex. There are plans to start collecting sex instead of gender in future collections.

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Further Education Workforce Team

Email: FurtherEducation.WORKFORCE@education.gov.uk
Contact name: Fran Elliott

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