Care assistant jobs in Ealing

Skills for Care recorded 4,500 filled care worker posts in Ealing in 2024/25, out of 5,200 care worker posts in total. Around 700 of those care worker posts in Ealing were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 16.8% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Ealing.

The care worker role is 60% of the 7,500 filled adult social care posts in Ealing. Turnover in the care worker role in Ealing ran at 29.4%. New starters were 33.3% of care worker posts in Ealing over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Ealing ranks 5th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 3,600 filled care worker posts, against 4,500 in Ealing. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Ealing workforce, the same release records 300 filled senior care worker posts, 200 filled community support and outreach posts and 150 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Ealing was £12.75 an hour for the care worker role and about £24,500 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Ealing only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Ealing earn a median of £39,483 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Ealing at £26,800, £12,683 below it.