Care assistant jobs in Suffolk

Skills for Care recorded 12,500 filled care worker posts in Suffolk in 2024/25, out of 13,500 care worker posts in total. Around 900 of those care worker posts in Suffolk were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 7.5% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Suffolk.

The care worker role is 53.2% of the 23,500 filled adult social care posts in Suffolk. Turnover in the care worker role in Suffolk ran at 25.2%. New starters were 34.2% of care worker posts in Suffolk over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Suffolk ranks 4th 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 12,500 in Suffolk. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Suffolk workforce, the same release records 1,300 filled senior care worker posts, 425 filled community support and outreach posts and 475 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Suffolk was £12.17 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Suffolk only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Suffolk earn a median of £36,891 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Suffolk at £25,400, £11,491 below it.