Care assistant jobs in Central Bedfordshire

Skills for Care recorded 2,900 filled care worker posts in Central Bedfordshire in 2024/25, out of 3,100 care worker posts in total. Around 225 of those care worker posts in Central Bedfordshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is an 8.2% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Central Bedfordshire.

The care worker role is 53.7% of the 5,400 filled adult social care posts in Central Bedfordshire. Turnover in the care worker role in Central Bedfordshire ran at 27.2%. New starters were 33% of care worker posts in Central Bedfordshire over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Central Bedfordshire ranks 9th 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 2,900 in Central Bedfordshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Central Bedfordshire workforce, the same release records 275 filled senior care worker posts, 175 filled community support and outreach posts and 150 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Central Bedfordshire was £12.23 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,500 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Central Bedfordshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Central Bedfordshire earn a median of £37,704 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Central Bedfordshire at £25,600, £12,104 below it.