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Leadership roles by open vacancies

Compare the number of open adverts in each of the vacancy watch's reviewed leadership roles.

Counted on . Vacancy watch read: .

Vacancies: DfE Teaching Vacancies service.

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Open adverts

243 of 243 adverts in this read included; 0 excluded by the counting rules below.

Headteacher roles make up the most open leadership adverts (84) as at 22 October 2026. Assistant headteacher roles have 41 open leadership adverts.

Showing 7 of 7 groups, highest first. Select a row to see its adverts.
Area, role or school factOpen adverts
Headteacher84
Assistant headteacher41
SENCO35
School business manager32
Deputy headteacher18
Designated safeguarding lead18
Trust executive15
How these figures are counted

Each advert is counted once by its Teaching Vacancies URL, not by the number of people the employer may appoint. Open means the watch has not closed it and its published closing instant has not passed. These are adverts observed by this watch, not all vacancies in England.

Roles use the watch's reviewed category and title rules. They are listing classifications, not changes to employer copy.

Groups with no included adverts or events are omitted. Ties use the stored group value in ascending binary order. No salary amounts or Ofsted outcomes enter a ranking.

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