Secondary education teaching professionals: pay and what the work involves

Occupation 2313 · Professional occupations

Secondary education teaching professionals

Secondary (and middle school deemed secondary), and sixth form education teaching professionals plan, organise and provide instruction in one or more subjects, including physical education and diversionary activities, within a prescribed curriculum.

How people enter it

Entry is with a first degree that provides QTS (qualified teacher status) or, in Scotland, TQ (teaching qualification); or other relevant degree followed by further postgraduate training (most commonly PGCE – Postgraduate Certificate in Secondary Education, or, in Scotland, PGDE – Professional Graduate Diploma in Education). Further and higher professional qualifications are required for some teaching posts. A DBS check is mandatory.

What the work involves

prepares and delivers courses and lessons in accordance with curriculum requirements and teaches one or more subjects
prepares, assigns and corrects exercises and examinations to record and evaluate students’ progress
prepares students for external examinations and administers and invigilates these examinations
maintains records of students’ progress and development
supervises any practical work and maintains classroom discipline
undertakes pastoral duties
supervises teaching assistants and trainees
discusses progress with student, parents and/or other education professionals
assists with or plans and develops curriculum and rota of teaching duties

Also called

Curriculum leader (secondary school) · Deputy head teacher (secondary school) · Head of year (secondary school) · Secondary school teacher · Sixth form teacher · Teacher (secondary school)

What it pays

Measure	Hours	Basis	Period	Value	Source
2313 : Secondary education teaching professionals	None	None	2026-03	431,600.00	ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
2313 : Secondary education teaching professionals	None	None	2026-03	447,900.00	ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
2313 : Secondary education teaching professionals	None	None	2026-03	488,800.00	ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
2313 : Secondary education teaching professionals	None	None	2026-03	15,300.00	ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
2313 : Secondary education teaching professionals	None	None	2026-03	40,900.00	ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
2313 : Secondary education teaching professionals	None	None	2026-03	504,100.00	ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
2313 : Secondary education teaching professionals	None	None	2026-03	16,300.00	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.

Region	Measure	Hours	Value	Period
East	2313 : Secondary education teaching professionals	None	50,900.00	2026-03
East Midlands	2313 : Secondary education teaching professionals	None	30,200.00	2026-03
London	2313 : Secondary education teaching professionals	None	73,700.00	2026-03
North East	2313 : Secondary education teaching professionals	None	13,600.00	2026-03
North West	2313 : Secondary education teaching professionals	None	49,700.00	2026-03
Northern Ireland	2313 : Secondary education teaching professionals	None	15,300.00	2026-03
Scotland	2313 : Secondary education teaching professionals	None	40,900.00	2026-03
South East	2313 : Secondary education teaching professionals	None	76,800.00	2026-03
South West	2313 : Secondary education teaching professionals	None	46,200.00	2026-03
Wales	2313 : Secondary education teaching professionals	None	16,300.00	2026-03
West Midlands	2313 : Secondary education teaching professionals	None	55,500.00	2026-03
Yorkshire and The Humber	2313 : Secondary education teaching professionals	None	35,000.00	2026-03

Common questions

Does pay for secondary 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

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