Adult social worker jobs in Hackney

Skills for Care recorded 100 filled social worker posts in Hackney in 2024/25, out of 125 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.5% of the 6,500 filled adult social care posts in Hackney. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Hackney, only 34.5% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Hackney ranks 19th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 100 filled social worker posts, against 100 in Hackney. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Hackney workforce, the same release records 25 filled occupational therapist posts, 325 filled community support and outreach posts and 50 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Hackney was £24.45 an hour for the social worker role and about £47,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Hackney 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 Hackney: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Hackney earn a median of £48,724 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Hackney at £28,600, £20,124 below it.