Care assistant jobs in Cambridgeshire

Skills for Care recorded 8,600 filled care worker posts in Cambridgeshire in 2024/25, out of 9,300 care worker posts in total. Around 750 of those care worker posts in Cambridgeshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is an 8.4% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Cambridgeshire.

The care worker role is 53.8% of the 16,000 filled adult social care posts in Cambridgeshire. Turnover in the care worker role in Cambridgeshire ran at 32.5%. New starters were 32.6% of care worker posts in Cambridgeshire over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Cambridgeshire ranks 5th of the 11 East of England areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East of England sits at 4,500 filled care worker posts, against 8,600 in Cambridgeshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Cambridgeshire workforce, the same release records 850 filled senior care worker posts, 275 filled community support and outreach posts and 375 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Cambridgeshire was £12.31 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Cambridgeshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Cambridgeshire earn a median of £42,323 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Cambridgeshire at £26,100, £16,223 below it.