Senior care assistant jobs in Devon

Skills for Care recorded 1,500 filled senior care worker posts in Devon in 2024/25, out of 1,500 senior care worker posts in total. Around 50 of those senior care worker posts in Devon were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 2.8% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Devon.

The senior care worker role is 6% of the 25,000 filled adult social care posts in Devon. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Devon ran at 12%. New starters were 12.5% of senior care worker posts in Devon over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Devon ranks 1st of the 14 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 725 filled senior care worker posts, against 1,500 in Devon. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Devon workforce, the same release records 12,000 filled care worker posts, 125 filled deputy manager posts and 400 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Devon was £13.02 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £25,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Devon only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Devon earn a median of £34,939 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Devon at £25,400, £9,539 below it.