Adult social worker jobs in Sutton

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

The social worker role is 0.9% of the 5,700 filled adult social care posts in Sutton. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Sutton, only 31% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Sutton ranks 32nd of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 100 filled social worker posts, against 50 in Sutton. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Sutton workforce, the same release records 10 filled occupational therapist posts, 100 filled community support and outreach posts and 125 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Sutton was £22.39 an hour for the social worker role and about £43,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Sutton 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 Sutton: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Sutton earn a median of £39,874 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Sutton at £26,800, £13,074 below it.