Adult social worker jobs in Devon

Skills for Care recorded 200 filled social worker posts in Devon in 2024/25, out of 225 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 0.8% of the 25,000 filled adult social care posts in Devon. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Devon, only 26.8% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Devon ranks 3rd of the 14 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 137.5 filled social worker posts, against 200 in Devon. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Devon workforce, the same release records 50 filled occupational therapist posts, 550 filled community support and outreach posts and 400 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Devon was £19.95 an hour for the social worker role and about £38,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Devon 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 Devon: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Devon earn a median of £34,939 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Devon at £25,400, £9,539 below it.