The Datum Report

Occupation 2312 · Professional occupations

Further education teaching professionals

Further education teaching professionals supervise and teach trade, technical, commercial, adult education, secondary and post-secondary courses to students beyond minimum school leaving age.

How people enter it

Further education lecturers normally require a professional or academic qualification in the subject area they intend to teach, relevant professional, industrial or business experience and an appropriate teaching qualification. A DBS check may be required.

What the work involves

Also called

FE College lecturer · Lecturer (further education) · Teacher (further education) · Tutor (further education)

What it pays

MeasureHoursBasisPeriodValueSource
2312 : Further education teaching professionals None None 2026-03 51,400.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
2312 : Further education teaching professionals None None 2026-03 54,200.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
2312 : Further education teaching professionals None None 2026-03 59,000.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
2312 : Further education teaching professionals None None 2026-03 800.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
2312 : Further education teaching professionals None None 2026-03 4,800.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
2312 : Further education teaching professionals None None 2026-03 59,800.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
2312 : Further education teaching professionals None None 2026-03 2,800.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

RegionMeasureHoursValuePeriod
East 2312 : Further education teaching professionals None 5,400.00 2026-03
East Midlands 2312 : Further education teaching professionals None 4,800.00 2026-03
London 2312 : Further education teaching professionals None 10,000.00 2026-03
North East 2312 : Further education teaching professionals None 2,700.00 2026-03
North West 2312 : Further education teaching professionals None 6,900.00 2026-03
Northern Ireland 2312 : Further education teaching professionals None 800.00 2026-03
Scotland 2312 : Further education teaching professionals None 4,800.00 2026-03
South East 2312 : Further education teaching professionals None 8,100.00 2026-03
South West 2312 : Further education teaching professionals None 4,500.00 2026-03
Wales 2312 : Further education teaching professionals None 2,800.00 2026-03
West Midlands 2312 : Further education teaching professionals None 4,800.00 2026-03
Yorkshire and The Humber 2312 : Further education teaching professionals None 4,300.00 2026-03

Common questions

Does pay for further education teaching professionals vary by region?

ONS publishes regional pay for this occupation where the survey sample supports it — 12 of 12 cells on this page. The rest are withheld by ONS, and are shown as withheld with the reason, rather than left out.

Where do these pay figures come from?

The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, published by the Office for National Statistics. Figures are shown exactly as ONS publishes them — we do not adjust, model or fill them in, and every number on this page carries the series and period it came from.

Classified alongside this

Higher education teaching professionals · Nursery education teaching professionals · Primary education teaching professionals · Secondary education teaching professionals · Special and additional needs education teaching professionals · Teachers of english as a foreign language · Teaching professionals n.e.c.