Care assistant jobs in Stockport

Skills for Care recorded 4,900 filled care worker posts in Stockport in 2024/25, out of 5,200 care worker posts in total. Around 325 of those care worker posts in Stockport were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 6.7% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Stockport.

The care worker role is 60.5% of the 8,100 filled adult social care posts in Stockport. Turnover in the care worker role in Stockport ran at 26.4%. New starters were 33.3% of care worker posts in Stockport over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Stockport ranks 7th of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 3,650 filled care worker posts, against 4,900 in Stockport. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Stockport workforce, the same release records 400 filled senior care worker posts, 250 filled community support and outreach posts and 175 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Stockport was £12.39 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 Stockport only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Stockport earn a median of £35,406 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Stockport at £25,600, £9,806 below it.