Care assistant jobs in Surrey

Skills for Care recorded 17,500 filled care worker posts in Surrey in 2024/25, out of 19,000 care worker posts in total. Around 1,900 of those care worker posts in Surrey were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 10.8% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Surrey.

The care worker role is 51.5% of the 34,000 filled adult social care posts in Surrey. Turnover in the care worker role in Surrey ran at 29.6%. New starters were 38.4% of care worker posts in Surrey over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Surrey ranks 3rd 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 17,500 in Surrey. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Surrey workforce, the same release records 2,000 filled senior care worker posts, 800 filled community support and outreach posts and 1,100 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Surrey was £12.42 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Surrey only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Surrey earn a median of £42,500 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Surrey at £26,700, £15,800 below it.