Care assistant jobs in Lancashire

Skills for Care recorded 21,500 filled care worker posts in Lancashire in 2024/25, out of 23,500 care worker posts in total. Around 1,800 of those care worker posts in Lancashire were vacant when the data was collected. That is an 8.6% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Lancashire.

The care worker role is 51.2% of the 42,000 filled adult social care posts in Lancashire. Turnover in the care worker role in Lancashire ran at 29.9%. New starters were 37.4% of care worker posts in Lancashire over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Lancashire ranks 1st 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 21,500 in Lancashire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Lancashire workforce, the same release records 2,100 filled senior care worker posts, 1,500 filled community support and outreach posts and 850 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Lancashire was £12.02 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Lancashire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Lancashire earn a median of £35,779 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Lancashire at £24,900, £10,879 below it.