Care assistant jobs in Peterborough

Skills for Care recorded 4,500 filled care worker posts in Peterborough in 2024/25, out of 5,000 care worker posts in total. Around 475 of those care worker posts in Peterborough were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 10.9% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Peterborough.

The care worker role is 57% of the 7,900 filled adult social care posts in Peterborough. Turnover in the care worker role in Peterborough ran at 40%. New starters were 51% of care worker posts in Peterborough over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Peterborough ranks 6th of the 11 East of England areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East of England sits at 4,500 filled care worker posts, against 4,500 in Peterborough. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Peterborough workforce, the same release records 400 filled senior care worker posts, 150 filled community support and outreach posts and 150 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Peterborough was £12.05 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,200 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Peterborough only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Peterborough earn a median of £36,050 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Peterborough at £25,000, £11,050 below it.