Adult social worker jobs in Swindon

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

The social worker role is 2% of the 5,100 filled adult social care posts in Swindon. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Swindon, only 28.5% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Swindon ranks 11th of the 14 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 137.5 filled social worker posts, against 100 in Swindon. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

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

Reported median pay in Swindon was £23.69 an hour for the social worker role and about £45,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Swindon 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 Swindon: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Swindon earn a median of £40,280 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Swindon at £26,100, £14,180 below it.