Adult social worker jobs in Salford

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

The social worker role is 0.4% of the 6,100 filled adult social care posts in Salford. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Salford, only 26.3% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Salford ranks 24th of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 125 filled social worker posts, against 25 in Salford. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Salford workforce, the same release records 200 filled community support and outreach posts and 100 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Salford was £17.93 an hour for the social worker role and about £34,500 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Salford 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 Salford: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Salford earn a median of £38,492 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Salford at £25,400, £13,092 below it.