Care assistant jobs in Wandsworth

Skills for Care recorded 2,900 filled care worker posts in Wandsworth in 2024/25, out of 3,100 care worker posts in total. Around 150 of those care worker posts in Wandsworth were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 5.3% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Wandsworth.

The care worker role is 50.9% of the 5,700 filled adult social care posts in Wandsworth. Turnover in the care worker role in Wandsworth ran at 29.3%. New starters were 51.8% of care worker posts in Wandsworth over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Wandsworth ranks 26th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 3,600 filled care worker posts, against 2,900 in Wandsworth. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Wandsworth workforce, the same release records 200 filled senior care worker posts, 125 filled community support and outreach posts and 150 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Wandsworth was £12.53 an hour for the care worker role and about £24,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Wandsworth only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Wandsworth earn a median of £43,035 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Wandsworth at £29,000, £14,035 below it.