Care assistant jobs in South Gloucestershire

Skills for Care recorded 4,700 filled care worker posts in South Gloucestershire in 2024/25, out of 5,100 care worker posts in total. Around 375 of those care worker posts in South Gloucestershire were vacant when the data was collected. That is an 8.5% vacancy rate for the care worker role in South Gloucestershire.

The care worker role is 50.5% of the 9,300 filled adult social care posts in South Gloucestershire. Turnover in the care worker role in South Gloucestershire ran at 21.1%. New starters were 25.7% of care worker posts in South Gloucestershire over the year.

On filled care worker posts, South Gloucestershire ranks 9th 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 4,700 in South Gloucestershire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the South Gloucestershire workforce, the same release records 425 filled senior care worker posts, 250 filled community support and outreach posts and 225 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in South Gloucestershire was £12.38 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in South Gloucestershire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in South Gloucestershire earn a median of £42,267 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in South Gloucestershire at £26,400, £15,867 below it.