Care assistant jobs in Hackney

Skills for Care recorded 3,200 filled care worker posts in Hackney in 2024/25, out of 3,400 care worker posts in total. Around 225 of those care worker posts in Hackney were vacant when the data was collected. That is an 8% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Hackney.

The care worker role is 49.2% of the 6,500 filled adult social care posts in Hackney. Turnover in the care worker role in Hackney ran at 40.1%. New starters were 24.5% of care worker posts in Hackney over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Hackney ranks 20th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 3,600 filled care worker posts, against 3,200 in Hackney. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Hackney workforce, the same release records 150 filled senior care worker posts, 325 filled community support and outreach posts and 50 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Hackney was £13.10 an hour for the care worker role and about £25,200 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Hackney only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Hackney earn a median of £48,724 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Hackney at £28,600, £20,124 below it.