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Teaching Assistants

Teaching assistants assist teachers with their day-to-day classroom work and with routine administrative tasks.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£7,081
£15,712
£22,719

New workers start around £7,081. Normal pay is £15,712 per year.
Highly experienced workers can earn up to £22,719.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 80,662 vacancies for this type of job

1.65%

Projected job growth over the next 8 years

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Helps with outings and other out-of-classroom activities.

  • Makes simple teaching aids and constructs thematic displays of educational material or children’s work.

  • Assists children with washing or dressing for outdoor and similar activities.

  • Listens to children read, reads to them or tells stories.

  • Looks after lesson materials such as paper, pencils and crayons.

  • Assists teacher with preparation or clearing up of classroom.

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Working With Children

  • Autism Spectrum Disorders

  • Due Diligence

  • Mental Health

  • Child Protection

  • Learning Support

  • Personal Care

  • Classroom Management

  • Individualized Education Programs (IEP)

  • Numeracy

Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Teaching

  • Communication

  • Management

  • Interpersonal Communications

  • English Language

  • Mathematics

  • Patience

  • Empathy

  • Resilience

  • Planning

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.

Routes to this career

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Applied Education Studies

Nottingham College

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Nottingham · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 48/48

Primary Teaching (QTS)

University of Chichester

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Bognor Regis · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 104/120

Education and Learning

South Thames College Group (inc Carshalton, South Thames and Kingston College)

BA (Hons) · 1 Year · Full-time · Carshalton · 09/2025

Tariff points: 48/48

Primary Education with SEND

University of Sunderland

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Sunderland · 15/09/2025

Tariff points: 104/120

Teaching and Learning

University Centre Truro and Penwith

FdA · 2 Years · Full-time · Truro · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 48/48

Education Studies

DN Colleges Group

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Scunthorpe · 09/2025

Tariff points: 32/32

Physical Education

Solent University (Southampton)

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Southampton · 15/09/2025

Tariff points: 104/120

Primary (English Medium)

University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI)

PGDES · 2 Years · Part-time · Inverness · 08/2025

Tariff points: 21/24

Primary Education with QTS

Birmingham City University

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Birmingham · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 120/120

Primary Education with QTS

University of Winchester

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Winchester · 08/09/2025

Tariff points: 112/120

Primary Education (QTS)

Canterbury Christ Church University

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Canterbury · 09/2025

Tariff points: 112/112

Primary Education

University of Wolverhampton

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Wolverhampton · 09/2025

Tariff points: 96/96

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