Care assistant jobs in Doncaster

Skills for Care recorded 5,000 filled care worker posts in Doncaster in 2024/25, out of 6,000 care worker posts in total.

The care worker role is 56.8% of the 8,800 filled adult social care posts in Doncaster. Turnover in the care worker role in Doncaster ran at 27.7%. New starters were 29% of care worker posts in Doncaster over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Doncaster ranks 7th of the 15 Yorkshire and The Humber areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of Yorkshire and The Humber sits at 4,900 filled care worker posts, against 5,000 in Doncaster. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Doncaster workforce, the same release records 500 filled senior care worker posts, 200 filled community support and outreach posts and 125 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Doncaster was £12.13 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Doncaster 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 Doncaster: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Doncaster earn a median of £33,802 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Doncaster at £24,800, £9,002 below it.