Adult social worker jobs in Kent

Skills for Care recorded 425 filled social worker posts in Kent in 2024/25, out of 450 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1% of the 44,000 filled adult social care posts in Kent. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Kent, only 22.6% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Kent ranks 1st of the 19 South East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South East sits at 100 filled social worker posts, against 425 in Kent. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Kent workforce, the same release records 100 filled occupational therapist posts, 1,500 filled community support and outreach posts and 800 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Kent was £19.93 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 Kent 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 Kent: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Kent earn a median of £36,127 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Kent at £25,300, £10,827 below it.