Care assistant jobs in Medway

Skills for Care recorded 3,900 filled care worker posts in Medway in 2024/25, out of 4,100 care worker posts in total. Around 150 of those care worker posts in Medway were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 3.9% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Medway.

The care worker role is 56.5% of the 6,900 filled adult social care posts in Medway. Turnover in the care worker role in Medway ran at 15.7%. New starters were 20.1% of care worker posts in Medway over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Medway ranks 9th of the 19 South East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South East sits at 3,700 filled care worker posts, against 3,900 in Medway. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Medway workforce, the same release records 375 filled senior care worker posts, 225 filled community support and outreach posts and 125 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Medway was £11.75 an hour for the care worker role and about £22,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Medway only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Medway earn a median of £37,128 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Medway at £24,800, £12,328 below it.