Employees by contract type
Number of employees by contract type and financial year; year labels are forward-filled from the source table.
2017/18–2024/25 · countRead the evidence Original FOI response · sheet Reply!A1:C26 ↗Scotland · Historical data
Teachers, pupils, schools and teaching posts · 1966–2025.
Fife 2025: the bulletin says a later correction of fewer than 10 FTE was not incorporated. These are the published figures.
Freedom of Information
Approved FOI evidence keeps its own reporting period and definition. It is not combined with the census figures above.
Number of employees by contract type and financial year; year labels are forward-filled from the source table.
2017/18–2024/25 · countRead the evidence Original FOI response · sheet Reply!A1:C26 ↗Number of employees by contract type and financial year; year labels are forward-filled from the source table.
2017/18–2024/25 · countRead the evidence Original FOI response · sheet Reply!A1:C26 ↗Number of employees by contract type and financial year; year labels are forward-filled from the source table.
2017/18–2024/25 · countRead the evidence Original FOI response · sheet Reply!A1:C26 ↗02 / Councils
Teacher FTE · all · 2025. Rankings describe values, not council performance.
Colour scale covers 2006–2025 and the selected year. Island groups are shown separately on the right, at different scales.
ONS boundaries · December 2024 ↗Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024. Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2024. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Publicly funded teacher full-time equivalents in the selected school sector. All school sectors includes centrally employed teachers and excludes early learning and childcare (ELC).