Senior care assistant jobs in Southampton

Skills for Care recorded 350 filled senior care worker posts in Southampton in 2024/25, out of 400 senior care worker posts in total. Around 50 of those senior care worker posts in Southampton were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 13.7% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Southampton.

The senior care worker role is 5.7% of the 6,100 filled adult social care posts in Southampton. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Southampton ran at 6.9%. New starters were 20.3% of senior care worker posts in Southampton over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Southampton ranks 10th of the 19 South East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South East sits at 350 filled senior care worker posts, against 350 in Southampton. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Southampton workforce, the same release records 3,500 filled care worker posts, 50 filled deputy manager posts and 125 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Southampton was £12.89 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £24,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Southampton only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Southampton earn a median of £39,464 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Southampton at £26,200, £13,264 below it.