Adult social worker jobs in Trafford

Skills for Care recorded 100 filled social worker posts in Trafford in 2024/25, out of 100 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.9% of the 5,400 filled adult social care posts in Trafford. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Trafford, only 23.6% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Trafford ranks 15th of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 125 filled social worker posts, against 100 in Trafford. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Trafford workforce, the same release records 125 filled community support and outreach posts and 100 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Trafford was £21.55 an hour for the social worker role and about £41,500 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Trafford only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Skills for Care withholds a vacancy rate, a turnover rate for the social worker role in Trafford: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Trafford earn a median of £38,682 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Trafford at £25,600, £13,082 below it.