Support worker jobs in Essex

Skills for Care recorded 850 filled community support and outreach posts in Essex in 2024/25, out of 900 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 50 of those community support and outreach posts in Essex were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 5% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Essex.

The community support and outreach role is 2.2% of the 38,000 filled adult social care posts in Essex. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Essex ran at 14.8%. New starters were 16.9% of community support and outreach posts in Essex over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Essex ranks 2nd of the 11 East of England areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East of England sits at 175 filled community support and outreach posts, against 850 in Essex. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Essex workforce, the same release records 21,000 filled care worker posts, 2,100 filled senior care worker posts and 550 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Essex was £12.65 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £24,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Essex only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Essex earn a median of £38,098 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Essex at £25,300, £12,798 below it.