Support worker jobs in Croydon

Skills for Care recorded 325 filled community support and outreach posts in Croydon in 2024/25, out of 350 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 25 of those community support and outreach posts in Croydon were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 10.5% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Croydon.

The community support and outreach role is 2.8% of the 11,500 filled adult social care posts in Croydon. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Croydon ran at 16.9%. New starters were 16.8% of community support and outreach posts in Croydon over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Croydon ranks 4th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 175 filled community support and outreach posts, against 325 in Croydon. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Croydon workforce, the same release records 6,500 filled care worker posts, 600 filled senior care worker posts and 200 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Croydon was £14.63 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £28,200 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Croydon only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Croydon earn a median of £40,033 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Croydon at £26,600, £13,433 below it.