Care assistant jobs in Wiltshire

Skills for Care recorded 8,100 filled care worker posts in Wiltshire in 2024/25, out of 8,900 care worker posts in total. Around 750 of those care worker posts in Wiltshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 9.5% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Wiltshire.

The care worker role is 57.9% of the 14,000 filled adult social care posts in Wiltshire. Turnover in the care worker role in Wiltshire ran at 29.5%. New starters were 37.3% of care worker posts in Wiltshire over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Wiltshire ranks 5th 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 8,100 in Wiltshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Wiltshire workforce, the same release records 900 filled senior care worker posts, 175 filled community support and outreach posts and 400 filled registered nurse posts.

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

Full-time workers in Wiltshire earn a median of £36,370 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Wiltshire at £26,100, £10,270 below it.