Care assistant jobs in Brent

Skills for Care recorded 3,900 filled care worker posts in Brent in 2024/25, out of 5,000 care worker posts in total.

The care worker role is 56.5% of the 6,900 filled adult social care posts in Brent. Turnover in the care worker role in Brent ran at 17.4%. New starters were 22.7% of care worker posts in Brent over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Brent ranks 9th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 3,600 filled care worker posts, against 3,900 in Brent. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Brent workforce, the same release records 250 filled senior care worker posts, 125 filled community support and outreach posts and 100 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Brent was £12.64 an hour for the care worker role and about £24,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Brent only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Skills for Care withholds a vacancy rate for the care worker role in Brent: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Brent earn a median of £38,311 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Brent at £26,200, £12,111 below it.