Deputy care home manager jobs in Essex

Skills for Care recorded 200 filled deputy manager posts in Essex in 2024/25, out of 200 deputy manager posts in total. That is a 2.8% vacancy rate for the deputy manager role in Essex.

The deputy manager role is 0.5% of the 38,000 filled adult social care posts in Essex. Turnover in the deputy manager role in Essex ran at 4.5%. New starters were 10% of deputy manager posts in Essex over the year.

On filled deputy manager posts, Essex ranks 2nd of the 11 East of England areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East of England sits at 25 filled deputy manager posts, against 200 in Essex. Across the 145 published England areas the middle is 25.

For the shape of the rest of the Essex workforce, the same release records 750 filled registered manager posts, 2,100 filled senior care worker posts and 21,000 filled care worker posts.

Reported median pay in Essex was £15.84 an hour for the deputy manager role and about £30,500 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Essex only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Essex earn a median of £38,098 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Essex at £25,300, £12,798 below it.