Adult social worker jobs in Sheffield

Skills for Care recorded 225 filled social worker posts in Sheffield in 2024/25, out of 225 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.3% of the 17,000 filled adult social care posts in Sheffield. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Sheffield, only 26.8% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Sheffield ranks 4th 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 225 in Sheffield. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Sheffield workforce, the same release records 50 filled occupational therapist posts, 375 filled community support and outreach posts and 225 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Sheffield was £19.70 an hour for the social worker role and about £37,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Sheffield 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 Sheffield: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Sheffield earn a median of £37,074 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Sheffield at £25,300, £11,774 below it.