Care assistant jobs in Wokingham

Skills for Care recorded 2,800 filled care worker posts in Wokingham in 2024/25, out of 3,100 care worker posts in total. Around 275 of those care worker posts in Wokingham were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 9.8% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Wokingham.

The care worker role is 54.9% of the 5,100 filled adult social care posts in Wokingham. Turnover in the care worker role in Wokingham ran at 22.5%. New starters were 29.5% of care worker posts in Wokingham over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Wokingham ranks 12th of the 19 South East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South East sits at 3,700 filled care worker posts, against 2,800 in Wokingham. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Wokingham workforce, the same release records 250 filled senior care worker posts, 150 filled community support and outreach posts and 100 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Wokingham was £12.36 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Wokingham only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Wokingham earn a median of £46,574 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Wokingham at £26,200, £20,374 below it.