Support worker jobs in Leeds

Skills for Care recorded 1,100 filled community support and outreach posts in Leeds in 2024/25, out of 1,100 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 0.6% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Leeds.

The community support and outreach role is 5% of the 22,000 filled adult social care posts in Leeds. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Leeds ran at 15.5%. New starters were 24.1% of community support and outreach posts in Leeds over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Leeds ranks 1st of the 15 Yorkshire and The Humber areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of Yorkshire and The Humber sits at 275 filled community support and outreach posts, against 1,100 in Leeds. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Leeds workforce, the same release records 11,000 filled care worker posts, 1,100 filled senior care worker posts and 375 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Leeds was £12.61 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 Leeds only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Leeds earn a median of £37,821 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Leeds at £25,700, £12,121 below it.