Adult social worker jobs in Westminster

Skills for Care recorded 150 filled social worker posts in Westminster in 2024/25, out of 175 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 2.2% of the 6,800 filled adult social care posts in Westminster. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Westminster, only 22.8% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Westminster ranks 10th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 100 filled social worker posts, against 150 in Westminster. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Westminster workforce, the same release records 25 filled occupational therapist posts, 425 filled community support and outreach posts and 25 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Westminster was £22.84 an hour for the social worker role and about £44,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Westminster 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 Westminster: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Westminster earn a median of £53,923 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Westminster at £30,200, £23,723 below it.