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A pay gap is not the same as unequal pay. It compares the midpoint of what men and women are paid across a whole workforce, so it mostly reflects which jobs each group holds. Paying people differently for the same work has been unlawful since 1970. Figures are employers’ own submissions to the Gender pay gap service, Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

UK pay gap explorer/Sectors/Education

Sector benchmark · 2025–26

Gender pay gap in Education

Name: UK Education gender pay gap data
Creator: Remunify
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

The median reported hourly pay gap across employers classified in this sector. Sector figures give context; they do not establish which employers perform well or badly.

About this sector’s data

This sector includes schools, academy trusts, colleges, universities and other education and training providers.

The balance between teaching, support, academic, professional and leadership roles differs by institution and can shape the reported midpoint. A pay gap describes the whole workforce and does not show whether people receive equal pay for equal work.

Across 1,906 classified employers, the sector median was 20.0% in 2025–26, 0.9 percentage points wider compared with 2017.

Sector median gap: 20.0%
Change since 2017: +0.9 pts
Employers classified: 1,906

Nine years of sector filings

Median of employer-level median hourly gaps · not weighted by workforce size

Above zero, men earn more at the midpoint. Hover or focus each point for the exact figure. The incomplete 2026 reporting year is omitted.

Employers with the widest reported gaps

2025–26 · first 40 of 1,535 usable filings in this sector

BIG EDUCATION TRUST250 to 49987.4%JAMES MONTGOMERY ACADEMY TRUST500 to 99983.0%Primitas Learning Partnership500 to 99974.5%Bellevue Place Education Trust500 to 99973.9%DALES ACADEMIES TRUST250 to 49965.3%SEYMOUR HOUSE LTD.250 to 49963.8%FORWARD AS ONE CHURCH OF ENGLAND MULTI ACADEMY TRUST500 to 99963.5%INOVA MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST LIMITED500 to 99963.2%CONSORTIUM TRUST500 to 99963.0%THE KITE ACADEMY TRUST250 to 49962.9%SOUTH ORPINGTON LEARNING ALLIANCE MULTI-ACADEMY TRUST250 to 49962.8%The LINK Education Trust250 to 49962.2%HABERDASHERS' WEST MIDLANDS ACADEMIES TRUST250 to 49962.2%LEARNING PATHWAYS ACADEMY250 to 49962.1%Fierte Multi Academy Trust250 to 49962.1%ATTIGO ACADEMY TRUST250 to 49961.5%Link Academy Trust250 to 49961.5%CIDARI EDUCATION LIMITED500 to 99960.3%Bishop Chadwick Catholic Education Trust1000 to 499960.0%RAYLEIGH SCHOOLS TRUST250 to 49960.0%THE CHELMSFORD LEARNING PARTNERSHIP500 to 99959.9%THE DIOCESE OF NORWICH EDUCATION AND ACADEMIES TRUST1000 to 499959.7%PLYMOUTH CAST1000 to 499959.6%Bridge Academy Trust1000 to 499959.6%RMET250 to 49959.1%SCHOLARS' EDUCATION TRUST1000 to 499959.1%EQUINOX LEARNING TRUST250 to 49959.0%PENROSE LEARNING TRUST500 to 99959.0%Hanley and Upton Educational Trust250 to 49958.9%CASTLEFORD ACADEMY TRUST500 to 99958.7%Diocese of Norwich St Benets Multi -Academy Trust250 to 49958.6%The Nene Education Trust500 to 99958.1%Mother Teresa Catholic Academy Trust500 to 99958.0%Sancta Familia Catholic Academy Trust250 to 49958.0%OSBORNE CO-OPERATIVE ACADEMY TRUST1000 to 499957.7%FULSTON MANOR ACADEMIES TRUST250 to 49957.0%SAFFRON ACADEMY TRUST500 to 99956.9%INNOVATE2EDUCATE PARTNERSHIP LIMITED250 to 49956.4%EQUALS TRUST500 to 99956.3%TRINITAS ACADEMY TRUST250 to 49956.2%

These are the widest gaps in the filed data, not a ranking of the “worst” employers. Workforce structure, occupations and the legal entity covered all affect the result.