Care assistant jobs in Leeds

Skills for Care recorded 11,000 filled care worker posts in Leeds in 2024/25, out of 12,000 care worker posts in total. Around 900 of those care worker posts in Leeds were vacant when the data was collected. That is an 8.1% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Leeds.

The care worker role is 50% of the 22,000 filled adult social care posts in Leeds. Turnover in the care worker role in Leeds ran at 38%. New starters were 37.6% of care worker posts in Leeds over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Leeds ranks 1st of the 15 Yorkshire and The Humber areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of Yorkshire and The Humber sits at 4,900 filled care worker posts, against 11,000 in Leeds. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Leeds workforce, the same release records 1,100 filled senior care worker posts, 1,100 filled community support and outreach posts and 425 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Leeds was £12.21 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 Leeds only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Leeds earn a median of £37,821 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Leeds at £25,700, £12,121 below it.