Care assistant jobs in Warrington

Skills for Care recorded 4,100 filled care worker posts in Warrington in 2024/25, out of 4,500 care worker posts in total. Around 350 of those care worker posts in Warrington were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 9% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Warrington.

The care worker role is 50.6% of the 8,100 filled adult social care posts in Warrington. Turnover in the care worker role in Warrington ran at 36.6%. New starters were 48.2% of care worker posts in Warrington over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Warrington ranks 11th 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 4,100 in Warrington. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Warrington workforce, the same release records 300 filled senior care worker posts, 475 filled community support and outreach posts and 200 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Warrington was £12.03 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Warrington only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Warrington earn a median of £41,159 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Warrington at £25,400, £15,759 below it.