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This study is set out to see the intercultural competence (henceforth IC) degree of English teachers and determine whether gender influences their IC or not. This study is conducted due to the reason that the need of IC becomes essential part both in education and life context in which the societies’ changes in communication and developing mutual aims have always been happened. This study was in the model of descriptive quantitative research that used a sample survey design. Samples of 88 English teachers in Yogyakarta taken by using Morgan’s table (1970). They were asked to complete the instrument comprising 3 factors with 40 items developed by Pestalozzi Programme and Intercultural Cities of the Council of European Commission and the European Wergeland Centre (2008). This study revealed that the degree of IC of English teachers was high and there was no significant relationship between gender and the IC of English teachers. In other words, the gender does not influence their IC accordingly as well as it is recommended that the IC should be had by any individuals respectively.