Care assistant jobs in Southwark

Skills for Care recorded 3,800 filled care worker posts in Southwark in 2024/25, out of 4,000 care worker posts in total. Around 200 of those care worker posts in Southwark were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 6.5% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Southwark.

The care worker role is 54.3% of the 7,000 filled adult social care posts in Southwark. Turnover in the care worker role in Southwark ran at 13.6%. New starters were 21.4% of care worker posts in Southwark over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Southwark ranks 13th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 3,600 filled care worker posts, against 3,800 in Southwark. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Southwark workforce, the same release records 175 filled senior care worker posts, 300 filled community support and outreach posts and 50 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Southwark was £12.66 an hour for the care worker role and about £24,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Southwark only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Southwark earn a median of £50,000 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Southwark at £27,200, £22,800 below it.