Care assistant jobs in Bedford

Skills for Care recorded 3,300 filled care worker posts in Bedford in 2024/25, out of 3,600 care worker posts in total. Around 275 of those care worker posts in Bedford were vacant when the data was collected. That is an 8.9% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Bedford.

The care worker role is 58.9% of the 5,600 filled adult social care posts in Bedford. Turnover in the care worker role in Bedford ran at 33.2%. New starters were 44.4% of care worker posts in Bedford over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Bedford ranks 7th 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 3,300 in Bedford. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Bedford workforce, the same release records 350 filled senior care worker posts, 100 filled community support and outreach posts and 125 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Bedford was £11.94 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Bedford only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Bedford earn a median of £37,994 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Bedford at £25,000, £12,994 below it.