Care assistant jobs in Warwickshire

Skills for Care recorded 8,900 filled care worker posts in Warwickshire in 2024/25, out of 9,400 care worker posts in total. Around 425 of those care worker posts in Warwickshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 4.9% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Warwickshire.

The care worker role is 53.9% of the 16,500 filled adult social care posts in Warwickshire. Turnover in the care worker role in Warwickshire ran at 36.4%. New starters were 37.9% of care worker posts in Warwickshire over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Warwickshire ranks 3rd of the 14 West Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the West Midlands sits at 5,450 filled care worker posts, against 8,900 in Warwickshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Warwickshire workforce, the same release records 850 filled senior care worker posts, 475 filled community support and outreach posts and 425 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Warwickshire was £12.37 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 Warwickshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Warwickshire earn a median of £40,536 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Warwickshire at £25,600, £14,936 below it.