Adult social worker jobs in Peterborough

Skills for Care recorded 50 filled social worker posts in Peterborough in 2024/25, out of 75 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 0.6% of the 7,900 filled adult social care posts in Peterborough. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Peterborough, only 33.8% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Peterborough ranks 11th of the 11 East of England areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East of England sits at 125 filled social worker posts, against 50 in Peterborough. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Peterborough workforce, the same release records 25 filled occupational therapist posts, 150 filled community support and outreach posts and 150 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Peterborough was £21.22 an hour for the social worker role and about £40,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Peterborough 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 Peterborough: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Peterborough earn a median of £36,050 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Peterborough at £25,000, £11,050 below it.