Senior care assistant jobs in Peterborough

Skills for Care recorded 400 filled senior care worker posts in Peterborough in 2024/25, out of 400 senior care worker posts in total. Around 10 of those senior care worker posts in Peterborough were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 3.6% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Peterborough.

The senior care worker role is 5.1% of the 7,900 filled adult social care posts in Peterborough. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Peterborough ran at 37%. New starters were 47.9% of senior care worker posts in Peterborough over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Peterborough ranks 6th 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 400 in Peterborough. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Peterborough workforce, the same release records 4,500 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 150 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Peterborough was £12.73 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £24,500 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Peterborough only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Peterborough earn a median of £36,050 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Peterborough at £25,000, £11,050 below it.