Pay insights · Education

Teacher pay in the UK, October 2026

What schools are advertising right now for full-time teacher roles, from 688 live adverts on Teaching Vacancies across 553 schools and trusts. Figures are the employer’s own stated range, not estimates.

Typical advertised range
£34,069 – £51,048
median of advertised minimums and maximums
Lower quarter starts at
£32,916
25th percentile of advertised minimums
Upper quarter reaches
£52,835
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)£30k – £62k
London86£39,196 – £56,154
East of England110£34,069 – £51,048
Yorkshire and the Humber83£34,069 – £51,048
South East91£34,068 – £51,048
East Midlands55£33,011 – £49,084
North West40£32,916 – £51,048
South West55£32,916 – £51,048
West Midlands116£32,916 – £51,048
North East16fewer than 30 adverts — not enough to report
United Kingdom688£34,069 – £51,048

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 teacher 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 153 part-time or term-time-only teacher 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 2,204 live teacher jobs →

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