Data set from School workforce in England

Teacher vacancies - school level

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Published 4 June 2026

Last updated 4 June 2026

Full and part time teacher vacancies, temporarily filled posts in state-funded schools in England, by sector and grade. Numbers and rates.

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Data set details

• Theme: Teachers and school workforce
• Publication: School workforce in England
• Release: Reporting year 2025
• Number of rows: 349,649
• Geographic levels: School
• Indicators:
  • Number of teacher vacancies
  • Number of temporary filled posts
  • Rate of temporary filled posts
• 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	vacancy	rate	tempfilled	temprate
202526	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E13000001	Inner London	201	E09000001	City of London	2013614	100000	The Aldgate School	LA maintained nursery and primary	0	0	0	0
202526	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E13000001	Inner London	202	E09000007	Camden	2021048	100005	Thomas Coram Centre	LA maintained nursery and primary	0	0	0	0
202526	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E13000001	Inner London	202	E09000007	Camden	2021100	100006	Heath School	State-funded special or PRU	0	0	0	0
202526	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E13000001	Inner London	202	E09000007	Camden	2021101	100007	Camden Primary Pupil Referral Unit	State-funded special or PRU	0	0	1	6.71
202526	Academic year	School	E92000001	England	E13000001	Inner London	202	E09000007	Camden	2022000	136807	St Luke's Church of England School	Primary academies	0	0	0	0

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Variables in this data set

Table showing all 5 variables

Variable name	Variable description
establishment_type_group	Type of school
rate	Rate of vacancies
tempfilled	Number of temporary filled posts
temprate	Rate of temporary filled posts
vacancy	Number of teacher vacancies

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