Care assistant jobs in Wolverhampton

Skills for Care recorded 6,100 filled care worker posts in Wolverhampton in 2024/25, out of 6,500 care worker posts in total. Around 425 of those care worker posts in Wolverhampton were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 7.1% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Wolverhampton.

The care worker role is 58.1% of the 10,500 filled adult social care posts in Wolverhampton. Turnover in the care worker role in Wolverhampton ran at 17.4%. New starters were 30.8% of care worker posts in Wolverhampton over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Wolverhampton ranks 6th of the 14 West Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the West Midlands sits at 5,450 filled care worker posts, against 6,100 in Wolverhampton. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Wolverhampton workforce, the same release records 475 filled senior care worker posts, 325 filled community support and outreach posts and 200 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Wolverhampton was £11.78 an hour for the care worker role and about £22,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Wolverhampton only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Wolverhampton earn a median of £35,740 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Wolverhampton at £24,400, £11,340 below it.