Education United Kingdom July 2025
Emerging
Benchmark status
We consider this an emerging benchmark: it has enough data available for us to use bootstrapping to create a representative sample. As the sample grows in size, some scores may slightly change. Our research has shown that our bootstrapped scores are consistent with our standard benchmarks. Read more about the methodology.
Data provided by Culture Amp
Most represented industries in this benchmark
Higher Education, E-Learning, Education Management, Primary/Secondary Education
Reported gender breakdown
Female
57%
Male
43%
Non-Binary
0.11%
Are employees committed to their organizations?
Engaged people are emotionally committed to their organization. These people stay at their organizations longer and are more productive and effective. Successful organizations have more engaged employees.
61% of Education United Kingdom employees are engaged
This is in the bottom 41% compared with the overall average.
The median eNPS score for organizations in this benchmark is -6 and is in the bottom 3% compared with the overall average.
How does Education United Kingdom compare?
On the lower side, people in Education United Kingdom had much lower favorable scores than average in Action, Feedback & Recognition, and Engagement.
People working in Education United Kingdom are more engaged than Nonprofit Organization Management Europe. People working in Education United Kingdom are less engaged than Western Europe (100-200), Telecommunications Europe, Internet (500-1000), and Finance Western Europe.
The highest scoring question for Education United Kingdom had 89% of people agreeing that they are able to arrange time out from work when they need to (+2% compared to overall) while they were generally most positive about Management.
People in Education United Kingdom were generally least favourable about Action, and were most negative towards 'I believe my total compensation (base salary+any bonuses+benefits+equity) is fair, relative to similar roles at other companies' with 29% of people disagreeing (+6% above average).
How long do people stay?
In the short term, 29% of people in this benchmark are thinking of or actually seeking jobs elsewhere (+9% compared to overall) while on a longer time frame, 17% of people see themselves leaving within two years (+7% compared to overall).
Understanding Tenure distributions
Tenure describes how long an employee has worked for their company: we know through our research that newly hired employees tend to be more positive than their tenured counterparts. Positivity declines sharply before bottoming out between two to six years, then rises slightly for those that remain.
The tenure composition of a benchmark can influence overall scores.
Tenure distributions
Less than 3 months
1%
3 months to 6 months
2%
6 months to less than 1 year
5%
1 to less than 2 years
17%
2 to less than 4 years
26%
4 to less than 6 years
10%
6 to less than 10 years
16%
Greater than 10 years
22%