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Historical trend
Trend summary
There were approximately 2,300 teacher vacancies in state-funded schools in England in November 2023, a vacancy rate of around 0.5%.
Trend
- Teacher vacancy rates rose from around 0.2–0.3% pre-pandemic to a peak of 0.8% in late 2021–22, and have since declined.
- Secondary schools and schools in London consistently show higher vacancy rates than primary schools and schools in other regions.
- STEM and modern foreign languages subjects have persistently higher vacancy rates than other subjects.
Context
- DfE publishes school workforce statistics annually; vacancy figures are a snapshot from a single census day in November.
- Vacancy statistics cover full-time equivalent teacher vacancies; they do not capture unfilled hours covered by supply or non-specialist teachers.
Trend summary generated by claude-sonnet-4-6 on 6 June 2024. Contains no editorial judgement — describes direction, magnitude, and official projections only.
About this indicator
- Source
- Department for Education
- Update frequency
- Annual
- Last updated
- 20 June 2024 Data may be out of date
- Licence
- OGL v3
- Rising trend is…
- Negative
Statistics
- Latest
- 1.9 %
- Period high
- 1.9
- Period low
- 1.2
- Period average
- 1.6