Care assistant jobs in Rotherham

Skills for Care recorded 4,600 filled care worker posts in Rotherham in 2024/25, out of 4,800 care worker posts in total. Around 175 of those care worker posts in Rotherham were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 3.8% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Rotherham.

The care worker role is 58.2% of the 7,900 filled adult social care posts in Rotherham. Turnover in the care worker role in Rotherham ran at 24.6%. New starters were 24.2% of care worker posts in Rotherham over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Rotherham ranks 9th of the 15 Yorkshire and The Humber areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of Yorkshire and The Humber sits at 4,900 filled care worker posts, against 4,600 in Rotherham. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Rotherham workforce, the same release records 375 filled senior care worker posts, 425 filled community support and outreach posts and 175 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Rotherham 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 Rotherham only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Rotherham earn a median of £33,419 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Rotherham at £25,100, £8,319 below it.