Care assistant jobs in Essex

Skills for Care recorded 21,000 filled care worker posts in Essex in 2024/25, out of 23,500 care worker posts in total. Around 2,500 of those care worker posts in Essex were vacant when the data was collected. That is an 11.7% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Essex.

The care worker role is 55.3% of the 38,000 filled adult social care posts in Essex. Turnover in the care worker role in Essex ran at 29.8%. New starters were 34.5% of care worker posts in Essex over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Essex ranks 1st 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 21,000 in Essex. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Essex workforce, the same release records 2,100 filled senior care worker posts, 850 filled community support and outreach posts and 750 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Essex was £12.20 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,500 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Essex only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Essex earn a median of £38,098 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Essex at £25,300, £12,798 below it.