Care assistant jobs in Cumberland

Skills for Care recorded 3,400 filled care worker posts in Cumberland in 2024/25, out of 4,000 care worker posts in total. Around 650 of those care worker posts in Cumberland were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 17.1% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Cumberland.

The care worker role is 44.7% of the 7,600 filled adult social care posts in Cumberland. Turnover in the care worker role in Cumberland ran at 46.3%. New starters were 52.6% of care worker posts in Cumberland over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Cumberland ranks 14th of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 3,650 filled care worker posts, against 3,400 in Cumberland. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Cumberland workforce, the same release records 350 filled senior care worker posts, 225 filled community support and outreach posts and 150 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Cumberland was £12.17 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Cumberland only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Cumberland earn a median of £42,808 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Cumberland at £25,800, £17,008 below it.