Care assistant jobs in Luton

Skills for Care recorded 2,500 filled care worker posts in Luton in 2024/25, out of 2,800 care worker posts in total. Around 375 of those care worker posts in Luton were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 14.3% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Luton.

The care worker role is 52.1% of the 4,800 filled adult social care posts in Luton. Turnover in the care worker role in Luton ran at 32.9%. New starters were 25% of care worker posts in Luton over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Luton ranks 10th 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 2,500 in Luton. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Luton workforce, the same release records 225 filled senior care worker posts, 175 filled community support and outreach posts and 75 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Luton was £12.01 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Luton only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Luton earn a median of £36,936 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Luton at £25,100, £11,836 below it.