Adult social worker jobs in Derby

Skills for Care recorded 125 filled social worker posts in Derby in 2024/25, out of 125 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.4% of the 8,700 filled adult social care posts in Derby. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Derby, only 26.9% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Derby ranks 4th of the 9 East Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East Midlands sits at 125 filled social worker posts, against 125 in Derby. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Derby workforce, the same release records 10 filled occupational therapist posts, 250 filled community support and outreach posts and 175 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Derby was £23.89 an hour for the social worker role and about £46,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Derby 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 Derby: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Derby earn a median of £41,924 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Derby at £25,000, £16,924 below it.