Care assistant jobs in Lincolnshire

Skills for Care recorded 13,000 filled care worker posts in Lincolnshire in 2024/25, out of 13,500 care worker posts in total. Around 700 of those care worker posts in Lincolnshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 6% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Lincolnshire.

The care worker role is 57.8% of the 22,500 filled adult social care posts in Lincolnshire. Turnover in the care worker role in Lincolnshire ran at 38.2%. New starters were 40.1% of care worker posts in Lincolnshire over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Lincolnshire ranks 2nd 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 13,000 in Lincolnshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Lincolnshire workforce, the same release records 1,400 filled senior care worker posts, 500 filled community support and outreach posts and 475 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Lincolnshire was £12.11 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Lincolnshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Lincolnshire earn a median of £33,324 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Lincolnshire at £24,900, £8,424 below it.