Support worker jobs in Wiltshire

Skills for Care recorded 175 filled community support and outreach posts in Wiltshire in 2024/25, out of 175 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 4.4% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Wiltshire.

The community support and outreach role is 1.3% of the 14,000 filled adult social care posts in Wiltshire. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Wiltshire ran at 22.6%. New starters were 23% of community support and outreach posts in Wiltshire over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Wiltshire ranks 10th 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 175 in Wiltshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Wiltshire workforce, the same release records 8,100 filled care worker posts, 900 filled senior care worker posts and 200 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Wiltshire was £12.52 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £24,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Wiltshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Wiltshire earn a median of £36,370 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Wiltshire at £26,100, £10,270 below it.