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AI for teachers

Teaching jobs are asking for new skills as AI arrives. These are the ones that come up most across the 22 we publish.

What AI is changing in teaching work

These are the future skills the teaching jobs we publish lean on, most common first. It is a reading of what the jobs ask for, not a course list.

  1. AI Fluency working with AI as a thinking partner Listed on 15 of the 22 teaching jobs
  2. Data Fluency turning numbers into a decision Listed on 6 of the 22 teaching jobs
  3. AI Governance Fluency using AI responsibly Listed on 1 of the 22 teaching jobs
  4. Automation Fluency building AI into how work runs Listed on 1 of the 22 teaching jobs
  5. Systems Fluency seeing the whole picture Listed on 1 of the 22 teaching jobs

New skills showing up in the job records

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The teaching jobs behind this page

22 jobs, filed here by the government's own occupation codes. Each page shows what AI is changing in that one job.

The teaching profession

Helping other people learn, from a nursery class to an adult evening course, and holding a room while you do it.

What it pays

From £21,239 for teaching assistants to £72,192 for head teachers and principals.

Median gross annual pay, full-time employees. Each figure belongs to the occupation beside it. There is no average across a profession, because none is measured.

  1. Head teachers and principals

    £72,192

    Widest step £19,357 down to the next occupation.

  2. Higher education teaching professionals

    £52,835

  3. Secondary education teaching professionals

    £47,632

  4. Special needs education teaching professionals

    £47,432

  5. Primary education teaching professionals

    £45,939

  6. Further education teaching professionals

    £42,218

  7. Nursery education teaching professionals

    £37,593

  8. Teachers of English as a foreign language

    £37,514

  9. Teaching professionals n.e.c.

    £34,396

  10. Higher level teaching assistants

    £25,434

  11. Educational support assistants

    £21,448

  12. Teaching assistants

    £21,239

Bars are drawn to scale from zero.

Pay figures on this page are taken from the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, 2025 (provisional), from the April 2025 survey. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Where this data comes from.

The jobs it covers

19 occupations sit in this profession, on the government’s own classification. Each one is a page: what the work involves, what you decide, and how you are measured.

How you get into it

To teach in a maintained school in England you need qualified teacher status.

Graduates get it through postgraduate teacher training. Without a degree, a teacher degree apprenticeship lets you work in a school and earn a salary while you get both.

Further education has two ways in. You can train on the job at a college, or take a PGCE or Cert Ed first. Colleges look for experience of the industry you would teach.

Teaching assistants come in through a college course, an apprenticeship, volunteering or applying directly. Each school sets its own entry requirements.

The regulated teaching, training and assessing courses, and who awards them

Who employs it

State schools are funded through their local authority or directly by government. Academies and free schools are run by not-for-profit academy trusts.

So the jobs are advertised by schools, local authorities and academy trusts.

What to expect

The Department for Education says generative AI could help with lesson planning, feedback and admin, and could reduce workload.

It also warns that what AI produces can be inaccurate, biased or out of date, so the teacher still checks it.

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