Care assistant jobs in Tameside

Skills for Care recorded 2,900 filled care worker posts in Tameside in 2024/25, out of 3,100 care worker posts in total. Around 200 of those care worker posts in Tameside were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 6.8% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Tameside.

The care worker role is 55.8% of the 5,200 filled adult social care posts in Tameside. Turnover in the care worker role in Tameside ran at 32.6%. New starters were 46% of care worker posts in Tameside over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Tameside ranks 19th of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 3,650 filled care worker posts, against 2,900 in Tameside. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Tameside workforce, the same release records 225 filled senior care worker posts, 150 filled community support and outreach posts and 75 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Tameside was £12.41 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 Tameside only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Tameside earn a median of £30,734 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Tameside at £26,100, £4,634 below it.