Historical trend
Trend summary
Teacher vacancy rate was 0.3% in 2025-26, down from 0.5% in 2024-25.
Trend
- Over the available record (2010-11–2025-26), it has ranged from 0.1% in 2011-12 to 0.6% in 2023-24.
- The latest reading is above the record average of 0.3%.
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.
Generated from the published series — describes direction, magnitude and range only, with no editorial judgement or forecasts.
About this indicator
- Source
- Department for Education
- Update frequency
- Annual
- Last updated
- 10 August 2026
- Next update
- 10 August 2027
- Licence
- OGL v3
- Direction
- ↓ Falling
Statistics
- Latest
- 0.3 %
- Period high
- 0.3 %
- Period low
- 0.3 %
- Period average
- 0.3 %