Care assistant jobs in East Riding of Yorkshire

Skills for Care recorded 5,600 filled care worker posts in East Riding of Yorkshire in 2024/25, out of 5,900 care worker posts in total. Around 250 of those care worker posts in East Riding of Yorkshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 5% vacancy rate for the care worker role in East Riding of Yorkshire.

The care worker role is 48.7% of the 11,500 filled adult social care posts in East Riding of Yorkshire. Turnover in the care worker role in East Riding of Yorkshire ran at 34.4%. New starters were 39.6% of care worker posts in East Riding of Yorkshire over the year.

On filled care worker posts, East Riding of Yorkshire ranks 6th 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 5,600 in East Riding of Yorkshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the East Riding of Yorkshire workforce, the same release records 750 filled senior care worker posts, 300 filled community support and outreach posts and 100 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in East Riding of Yorkshire was £12.24 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 East Riding of Yorkshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in East Riding of Yorkshire earn a median of £35,020 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in East Riding of Yorkshire at £25,400, £9,620 below it.