Senior care assistant jobs in Luton

Skills for Care recorded 225 filled senior care worker posts in Luton in 2024/25, out of 225 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 1.9% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Luton.

The senior care worker role is 4.7% of the 4,800 filled adult social care posts in Luton. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Luton ran at 5.7%. New starters were 4.4% of senior care worker posts in Luton over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Luton ranks 10th 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 225 in Luton. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Luton workforce, the same release records 2,500 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 125 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Luton was £12.64 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £24,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Luton only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Luton earn a median of £36,936 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Luton at £25,100, £11,836 below it.