Adult social worker jobs in County Durham

Skills for Care recorded 275 filled social worker posts in County Durham in 2024/25, out of 300 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.9% of the 14,500 filled adult social care posts in County Durham. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in County Durham, only 29.4% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, County Durham ranks 1st of the 12 North East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North East sits at 100 filled social worker posts, against 275 in County Durham. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the County Durham workforce, the same release records 25 filled occupational therapist posts, 375 filled community support and outreach posts and 175 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in County Durham was £20.32 an hour for the social worker role and about £39,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in County Durham 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 County Durham: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in County Durham earn a median of £32,945 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in County Durham at £25,100, £7,845 below it.