Adult social worker jobs in Bradford

Skills for Care recorded 275 filled social worker posts in Bradford in 2024/25, out of 275 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.7% of the 16,500 filled adult social care posts in Bradford. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Bradford, only 22.4% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Bradford ranks 2nd of the 15 Yorkshire and The Humber areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of Yorkshire and The Humber sits at 125 filled social worker posts, against 275 in Bradford. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Bradford workforce, the same release records 50 filled occupational therapist posts, 500 filled community support and outreach posts and 200 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Bradford was £20.07 an hour for the social worker role and about £38,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Bradford only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Skills for Care withholds a vacancy rate, a turnover rate for the social worker role in Bradford: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Bradford earn a median of £35,213 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Bradford at £25,400, £9,813 below it.