Care assistant jobs in Leicester

Skills for Care recorded 7,900 filled care worker posts in Leicester in 2024/25, out of 8,500 care worker posts in total. Around 600 of those care worker posts in Leicester were vacant when the data was collected. That is an 8.1% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Leicester.

The care worker role is 60.8% of the 13,000 filled adult social care posts in Leicester. Turnover in the care worker role in Leicester ran at 24.1%. New starters were 28.8% of care worker posts in Leicester over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Leicester ranks 5th of the 10 East Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East Midlands sits at 7,350 filled care worker posts, against 7,900 in Leicester. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Leicester workforce, the same release records 650 filled senior care worker posts, 300 filled community support and outreach posts and 125 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Leicester was £11.91 an hour for the care worker role and about £22,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Leicester only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Leicester earn a median of £34,096 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Leicester at £24,700, £9,396 below it.