Care assistant jobs in North Somerset

Skills for Care recorded 3,500 filled care worker posts in North Somerset in 2024/25, out of 3,700 care worker posts in total. Around 200 of those care worker posts in North Somerset were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 6% vacancy rate for the care worker role in North Somerset.

The care worker role is 48.6% of the 7,200 filled adult social care posts in North Somerset. Turnover in the care worker role in North Somerset ran at 35.6%. New starters were 42.1% of care worker posts in North Somerset over the year.

On filled care worker posts, North Somerset ranks 11th of the 14 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 6,250 filled care worker posts, against 3,500 in North Somerset. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the North Somerset workforce, the same release records 425 filled senior care worker posts, 100 filled community support and outreach posts and 275 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in North Somerset was £12.30 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 North Somerset only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in North Somerset earn a median of £34,838 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in North Somerset at £26,100, £8,738 below it.