Care assistant jobs in Hertfordshire

Skills for Care recorded 19,000 filled care worker posts in Hertfordshire in 2024/25, out of 20,500 care worker posts in total. Around 1,200 of those care worker posts in Hertfordshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 6.2% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Hertfordshire.

The care worker role is 55.9% of the 34,000 filled adult social care posts in Hertfordshire. Turnover in the care worker role in Hertfordshire ran at 29.1%. New starters were 34.1% of care worker posts in Hertfordshire over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Hertfordshire ranks 2nd of the 11 East of England areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East of England sits at 4,500 filled care worker posts, against 19,000 in Hertfordshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Hertfordshire workforce, the same release records 1,600 filled senior care worker posts, 1,000 filled community support and outreach posts and 700 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Hertfordshire was £12.35 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Hertfordshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Hertfordshire earn a median of £42,775 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Hertfordshire at £25,900, £16,875 below it.