Care assistant jobs in Barnet

Skills for Care recorded 5,400 filled care worker posts in Barnet in 2024/25, out of 5,900 care worker posts in total. Around 450 of those care worker posts in Barnet were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 10.5% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Barnet.

The care worker role is 49.1% of the 11,000 filled adult social care posts in Barnet. Turnover in the care worker role in Barnet ran at 18%. New starters were 20.1% of care worker posts in Barnet over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Barnet ranks 3rd of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 3,600 filled care worker posts, against 5,400 in Barnet. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Barnet workforce, the same release records 700 filled senior care worker posts, 225 filled community support and outreach posts and 250 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Barnet was £12.51 an hour for the care worker role and about £24,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Barnet only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Barnet earn a median of £38,294 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Barnet at £26,700, £11,594 below it.