Supply teaching can be confusing.
Rates vary. Agencies work differently. Employment arrangements are not always explained clearly. And useful information is often scattered across recruitment sites, government guidance and forum posts.
Supply Teaching exists to make that easier.
It is an independent resource for supply teachers, cover supervisors, teaching assistants and other people working in temporary education roles across the UK.
No recruitment pitch. No CV upload. No pressure to register.
Just practical information, useful tools and a clearer picture of the supply market.
What you’ll find here
The site is built around a few simple things:
- practical guides about working in supply
- a Pay Checker to help put your day rate into context
- local market information based on anonymous shared data
- Supply Pulse, showing how people feel about the amount of work available
- useful resources for people new to supply and those already working in it
The aim is to answer the questions people actually have, rather than burying them in jargon.
Independent by design
Supply Teaching is not a recruitment agency.
It does not exist to collect candidate details, generate leads or push people towards a particular employer.
You do not need to provide a name, email address, telephone number or CV to use the main parts of the site.
Where people choose to contribute information, the goal is to collect only what is needed to make the tools useful.
Built around real experience
The site combines practical knowledge of the education recruitment market with anonymous information shared by people working in supply.
That means the site can gradually build a better picture of things such as:
- typical rates being shared
- differences between locations
- the types of roles people are working in
- how much supply work people are actually getting
The more useful the site becomes, the better the picture can become too.
What the data means
The market information on Supply Teaching is intended to provide context, not certainty.
A typical rate shown for an area does not mean every teacher or support worker should be paid that amount.
Pay can vary for lots of legitimate reasons, including role, experience, subject, phase, length of booking, responsibilities and location.
Where there is not enough information to say something useful, we would rather say that we are still building the picture.
You can read more about how the data is handled on the Methodology page.
A simple approach
The principle behind the site is straightforward:
Useful to you first. Interesting to the data second.
That means the tools should provide something worthwhile before asking anyone to contribute anything.
It also means being open about what the site knows, what it does not know and where information comes from.
Who is behind it?
Supply Teaching is an independent Boin Web Services project.
It has been created as a practical side project rather than a recruitment business, with the aim of building something genuinely useful for people working in supply education.
The site will continue to develop as more guides, tools and market information are added.
Found something wrong?
Employment rules, pension guidance and education policy can change.
If something looks outdated, unclear or simply wrong, please get in touch so it can be checked and corrected.
The aim is not to pretend the site is perfect.
It is to keep making it more useful.