Care assistant jobs in Northumberland

Skills for Care recorded 4,800 filled care worker posts in Northumberland in 2024/25, out of 5,100 care worker posts in total. Around 275 of those care worker posts in Northumberland were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 6% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Northumberland.

The care worker role is 50.5% of the 9,500 filled adult social care posts in Northumberland. Turnover in the care worker role in Northumberland ran at 31%. New starters were 37.8% of care worker posts in Northumberland over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Northumberland ranks 3rd of the 12 North East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North East sits at 3,300 filled care worker posts, against 4,800 in Northumberland. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Northumberland workforce, the same release records 650 filled senior care worker posts, 175 filled community support and outreach posts and 225 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Northumberland was £12.27 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Northumberland only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Northumberland earn a median of £35,323 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Northumberland at £25,900, £9,423 below it.