Care assistant jobs in Brighton and Hove

Skills for Care recorded 3,700 filled care worker posts in Brighton and Hove in 2024/25, out of 4,000 care worker posts in total. Around 225 of those care worker posts in Brighton and Hove were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 6.6% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Brighton and Hove.

The care worker role is 51.4% of the 7,200 filled adult social care posts in Brighton and Hove. Turnover in the care worker role in Brighton and Hove ran at 32%. New starters were 33.6% of care worker posts in Brighton and Hove over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Brighton and Hove ranks 10th of the 19 South East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South East sits at 3,700 filled care worker posts, against 3,700 in Brighton and Hove. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Brighton and Hove workforce, the same release records 325 filled senior care worker posts, 125 filled community support and outreach posts and 175 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Brighton and Hove was £12.40 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Brighton and Hove only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Brighton and Hove earn a median of £39,137 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Brighton and Hove at £26,300, £12,837 below it.