Senior care assistant jobs in Cambridgeshire

Skills for Care recorded 850 filled senior care worker posts in Cambridgeshire in 2024/25, out of 850 senior care worker posts in total. Around 25 of those senior care worker posts in Cambridgeshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 1.8% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Cambridgeshire.

The senior care worker role is 5.3% of the 16,000 filled adult social care posts in Cambridgeshire. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Cambridgeshire ran at 21.3%. New starters were 16.5% of senior care worker posts in Cambridgeshire over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Cambridgeshire ranks 5th of the 11 East of England areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East of England sits at 400 filled senior care worker posts, against 850 in Cambridgeshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Cambridgeshire workforce, the same release records 8,600 filled care worker posts, 75 filled deputy manager posts and 275 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Cambridgeshire was £13.21 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £25,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Cambridgeshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Cambridgeshire earn a median of £42,323 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Cambridgeshire at £26,100, £16,223 below it.