Care assistant jobs in Swindon

Skills for Care recorded 2,600 filled care worker posts in Swindon in 2024/25, out of 2,900 care worker posts in total. Around 275 of those care worker posts in Swindon were vacant when the data was collected. That is an 11% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Swindon.

The care worker role is 51% of the 5,100 filled adult social care posts in Swindon. Turnover in the care worker role in Swindon ran at 41.1%. New starters were 39.5% of care worker posts in Swindon over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Swindon ranks 12th of the 14 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 6,250 filled care worker posts, against 2,600 in Swindon. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Swindon workforce, the same release records 275 filled senior care worker posts, 100 filled community support and outreach posts and 125 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Swindon was £12.29 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Swindon only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Swindon earn a median of £40,280 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Swindon at £26,100, £14,180 below it.