Pay insights · Education

Pastoral and student support pay in the UK, October 2026

What schools are advertising right now for full-time pastoral and student support roles, from 154 live adverts on Teaching Vacancies across 141 schools and trusts. Figures are the employer’s own stated range, not estimates.

Typical advertised range
£27,782 – £31,722
median of advertised minimums and maximums
Lower quarter starts at
£24,484
25th percentile of advertised minimums
Upper quarter reaches
£36,258
75th percentile of advertised maximums

Updated 9 October 2026 · rebuilt every day · Download the data (CSV)

By region

Advertised range for full-time roles. The bar runs from the median advertised minimum to the median advertised maximum; the grey ticks mark the 25th and 75th percentiles. Regions with fewer than 30 adverts are listed without figures.

RegionAdvertsAdvertised range (median)£22k – £39k
East Midlands20fewer than 30 adverts — not enough to report
East of England17fewer than 30 adverts — not enough to report
London12fewer than 30 adverts — not enough to report
North East5fewer than 30 adverts — not enough to report
North West18fewer than 30 adverts — not enough to report
South East13fewer than 30 adverts — not enough to report
South West13fewer than 30 adverts — not enough to report
West Midlands18fewer than 30 adverts — not enough to report
Yorkshire and the Humber24fewer than 30 adverts — not enough to report
United Kingdom154£27,782 – £31,722

What the figures are

Teaching Vacancies, the Department for Education's own listing service, where schools state the salary on almost every advert. We take every live full-time pastoral and student support advert with an annual salary of £12,000 or more, remove reposts (same school, same title, same region), and report the median of the stated minimums and maximums.

These are advertised ranges, not what any individual is paid, and not a survey. A region needs at least 30 adverts before a figure is shown.

Part-time adverts

A further 49 part-time or term-time-only pastoral and student support adverts state an annual salary. A part-time figure may be the pro-rata amount actually paid or the full-time equivalent, and the advert rarely says which, so they are kept out of the table above.

See the 498 live pastoral and student support jobs →

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