Support worker jobs in Devon

Skills for Care recorded 550 filled community support and outreach posts in Devon in 2024/25, out of 550 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 25 of those community support and outreach posts in Devon were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 4.5% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Devon.

The community support and outreach role is 2.2% of the 25,000 filled adult social care posts in Devon. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Devon ran at 29.6%. New starters were 34.8% of community support and outreach posts in Devon over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Devon ranks 1st of the 14 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 287.5 filled community support and outreach posts, against 550 in Devon. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Devon workforce, the same release records 12,000 filled care worker posts, 1,500 filled senior care worker posts and 200 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Devon was £12.24 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £23,500 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Devon only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Devon earn a median of £34,939 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Devon at £25,400, £9,539 below it.