Adult social worker jobs in Rotherham

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

The social worker role is 1.3% of the 7,900 filled adult social care posts in Rotherham. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Rotherham, only 19.5% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Rotherham ranks 10th of the 15 Yorkshire and The Humber areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of Yorkshire and The Humber sits at 125 filled social worker posts, against 100 in Rotherham. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Rotherham workforce, the same release records 425 filled community support and outreach posts and 125 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Rotherham was £24.12 an hour for the social worker role and about £46,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Rotherham 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 Rotherham: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Rotherham earn a median of £33,419 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Rotherham at £25,100, £8,319 below it.