Ofqual Register - 53K Regulated UK Qualifications

The register of regulated qualifications that Ofqual publishes for England: 53,049 qualifications (register build 25 October 2026), of which 17,100 are currently available to learners and 34,187 are no longer awarded. The register lists 351 awarding organisations; 326 recognition numbers (323 distinct names) have qualifications in this extract. Every record carries the level, type, status, sector subject area and awarding organisation, plus the dates the register publishes (an operational end date on 71.7% of records and a certification end date on 71.4%). The credit, guided-learning, grading-scale and apprenticeship fields are present where the register publishes them (measured over all 53,049 rows: total credits 82.6%, GLH 53.7%, TQT 54.0%, grading scale 25.8%, apprenticeship standard 6.0%).

Low cost

From $0.00005 per record, down to $0.00003 at Gold. You pay only for the records you receive; the whole register stays searchable.

What you get per qualification

field	meaning
qualificationNumber, title	Ofqual qualification number and title
status	Available to learners, No longer available to new learners, Not yet available to learners, No longer awarded
level, subLevel, eqfLevel	Ofqual level, sub-level and EQF level
type	qualification type, e.g. QCF, National Vocational Qualification, End-Point Assessment, GCSE (A* to G), English For Speakers of Other Languages
totalCredits, tqt, glh, minGlh, maxGlh	credit and learning-time values
ssa	sector subject area, e.g. 13.1 Teaching and lecturing
gradingType, gradingScale, assessmentMethods	how the qualification is graded and assessed
regulationStart, operationalStart, operationalEnd, certificationEnd	validity dates
offeredInEngland, offeredInNorthernIreland	where it is offered
apprenticeshipStandard, apprenticeshipTitle	linked apprenticeship standard, where one exists
specialisms, pathways	specialisms and pathways tagged by the register, where published
specificationUrl	the awarding organisation's specification, where published
organisationName, organisationAcronym, organisationLegalName	awarding organisation
organisationRecognitionNumber, organisationStatus, organisationWebsite	Ofqual recognition details
organisationTown, organisationPostcode	head-office address of the awarding organisation
refreshedDate	date of the register release this record came from

The register is a living record: it keeps qualifications after they retire, so a "current qualifications" answer should set availableOnly=true (or status="Available to learners"). Qualification and organisation records are included; the register's separate unit-level files are not.

Search it

• Keyword - q="electrical installation" (matches title or number).
• Awarding organisation - organisation="City & Guilds" (matches City & Guilds Limited and AQA - City & Guilds), organisation="Pearson".
• Level - level="Level 3", "Entry Level".
• Current only - availableOnly=true.
• Sector - ssa="Health and social care".
• Exact qualification - qualificationNumber="500/1514/X".
• Apprenticeship standard - apprenticeshipStandard="ST0384".

Example inputs

Current Level 3 health and social care qualifications

{ "level": "Level 3", "ssa": "Health and social care",
  "availableOnly": true, "maxResults": 100 }

One awarding organisation's live offer

{ "organisation": "City & Guilds Limited", "availableOnly": true,
  "maxResults": 200 }

Everything linked to an apprenticeship standard

{ "apprenticeshipStandard": "ST0384", "maxResults": 50 }

Aggregate it

Set groupBy with no filters for a whole-register rollup, or with filters for a scoped one:

{ "mode": "aggregate", "groupBy": "level" }

groupBy = status (default), level, type, organisation, ssa, eqfLevel or offeredInEngland. Every row carries groupKey, groupCount, groupBy and totalMatched.

The default (empty) run returns the whole-register status summary. A search returns at most 5,000 records per run and there is no offset paging; the largest partitions (status "No longer awarded" 34,187; that status plus one level still 10,907) are bigger than that. mode=aggregate gives counts for those partitions; to enumerate them, add filters that bring the partition under 5,000.

Source and licence

Ofqual Register of Regulated Qualifications, published under the Open Government Licence v3, which permits commercial reuse with attribution. Qualification records contain no personal data; the awarding organisation's public email address and telephone number are not included (website and head-office address only).

Data source: Ofqual - find a qualification.