diff --git a/wagtail/admin/views/generic/base.py b/wagtail/admin/views/generic/base.py
index 73a0458cb5..76081cf869 100644
--- a/wagtail/admin/views/generic/base.py
+++ b/wagtail/admin/views/generic/base.py
@@ -537,6 +537,7 @@ class BaseListingView(WagtailAdminTemplateMixin, BaseListView):
         context["index_url"] = self.index_url
         context["index_results_url"] = self.index_results_url
         context["verbose_name_plural"] = self.verbose_name_plural
+        context["ordering"] = self.ordering
         context["table"] = table
         context["media"] = table.media
         # On Django's BaseListView, a listing where pagination is applied, but the results
diff --git a/wagtail/admin/views/pages/listing.py b/wagtail/admin/views/pages/listing.py
index 0b802d0a0a..4903e9dea8 100644
--- a/wagtail/admin/views/pages/listing.py
+++ b/wagtail/admin/views/pages/listing.py
@@ -297,7 +297,6 @@ class IndexView(generic.IndexView):
 
         context.update(
             {
-                "ordering": self.ordering,
                 "search_form": self.search_form,
                 "is_searching": self.is_searching,
             }
diff --git a/wagtail/admin/views/pages/search.py b/wagtail/admin/views/pages/search.py
index 41d80f6308..fa33e4a67e 100644
--- a/wagtail/admin/views/pages/search.py
+++ b/wagtail/admin/views/pages/search.py
@@ -175,7 +175,6 @@ class SearchView(PermissionCheckedMixin, BaseListingView):
                 "all_pages": self.all_pages,
                 "content_types": self.content_types,
                 "selected_content_type": self.selected_content_type,
-                "ordering": self.ordering,
             }
         )
         return context