Senior care assistant jobs in Leeds

Skills for Care recorded 1,100 filled senior care worker posts in Leeds in 2024/25, out of 1,100 senior care worker posts in total. Around 25 of those senior care worker posts in Leeds were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 1.8% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Leeds.

The senior care worker role is 5% of the 22,000 filled adult social care posts in Leeds. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Leeds ran at 15.4%. New starters were 13.3% of senior care worker posts in Leeds over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Leeds ranks 1st of the 15 Yorkshire and The Humber areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of Yorkshire and The Humber sits at 500 filled senior care worker posts, against 1,100 in Leeds. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Leeds workforce, the same release records 11,000 filled care worker posts, 100 filled deputy manager posts and 375 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Leeds was £12.81 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £24,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Leeds only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Leeds earn a median of £37,821 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Leeds at £25,700, £12,121 below it.