Support worker jobs in Wigan

Skills for Care recorded 300 filled community support and outreach posts in Wigan in 2024/25, out of 300 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 0.4% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Wigan.

The community support and outreach role is 3.2% of the 9,400 filled adult social care posts in Wigan. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Wigan ran at 9.7%. New starters were 23% of community support and outreach posts in Wigan over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Wigan ranks 9th of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 250 filled community support and outreach posts, against 300 in Wigan. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Wigan workforce, the same release records 4,400 filled care worker posts, 425 filled senior care worker posts and 150 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Wigan was £14.36 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £27,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Wigan only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Wigan earn a median of £33,669 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Wigan at £26,000, £7,669 below it.