Care assistant jobs in Staffordshire

Skills for Care recorded 12,500 filled care worker posts in Staffordshire in 2024/25, out of 14,000 care worker posts in total. Around 1,500 of those care worker posts in Staffordshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is an 11.5% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Staffordshire.

The care worker role is 54.3% of the 23,000 filled adult social care posts in Staffordshire. Turnover in the care worker role in Staffordshire ran at 33.1%. New starters were 39.5% of care worker posts in Staffordshire over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Staffordshire ranks 2nd 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 12,500 in Staffordshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Staffordshire workforce, the same release records 1,300 filled senior care worker posts, 350 filled community support and outreach posts and 700 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Staffordshire was £12.04 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,200 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Staffordshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Staffordshire earn a median of £34,532 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Staffordshire at £24,900, £9,632 below it.