Care assistant jobs in Barnsley

Skills for Care recorded 3,500 filled care worker posts in Barnsley in 2024/25, out of 3,700 care worker posts in total. Around 225 of those care worker posts in Barnsley were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 6.6% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Barnsley.

The care worker role is 54.7% of the 6,400 filled adult social care posts in Barnsley. Turnover in the care worker role in Barnsley ran at 21%. New starters were 25.7% of care worker posts in Barnsley over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Barnsley ranks 11th of the 15 Yorkshire and The Humber areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of Yorkshire and The Humber sits at 4,900 filled care worker posts, against 3,500 in Barnsley. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Barnsley workforce, the same release records 375 filled senior care worker posts, 100 filled community support and outreach posts and 100 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Barnsley was £12.37 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 Barnsley only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Barnsley earn a median of £35,629 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Barnsley at £25,300, £10,329 below it.