Senior care assistant jobs in Derbyshire

Skills for Care recorded 1,400 filled senior care worker posts in Derbyshire in 2024/25, out of 1,500 senior care worker posts in total. Around 50 of those senior care worker posts in Derbyshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 4.5% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Derbyshire.

The senior care worker role is 6% of the 23,500 filled adult social care posts in Derbyshire. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Derbyshire ran at 9.4%. New starters were 11.8% of senior care worker posts in Derbyshire over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Derbyshire ranks 1st of the 10 East Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East Midlands sits at 625 filled senior care worker posts, against 1,400 in Derbyshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Derbyshire workforce, the same release records 12,500 filled care worker posts, 125 filled deputy manager posts and 350 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Derbyshire was £13.14 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £25,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Derbyshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Derbyshire earn a median of £36,011 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Derbyshire at £25,500, £10,511 below it.