Adult social worker jobs in Wigan

Skills for Care recorded 150 filled social worker posts in Wigan in 2024/25, out of 150 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.6% of the 9,400 filled adult social care posts in Wigan. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Wigan, only 20% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Wigan ranks 5th 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 150 in Wigan. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Wigan workforce, the same release records 25 filled occupational therapist posts, 300 filled community support and outreach posts and 100 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Wigan was £21.32 an hour for the social worker role and about £41,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Wigan 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 Wigan: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Wigan earn a median of £33,669 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Wigan at £26,000, £7,669 below it.