Care assistant jobs in Birmingham

Skills for Care recorded 18,500 filled care worker posts in Birmingham in 2024/25, out of 19,500 care worker posts in total. Around 950 of those care worker posts in Birmingham were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 5.3% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Birmingham.

The care worker role is 56.1% of the 33,000 filled adult social care posts in Birmingham. Turnover in the care worker role in Birmingham ran at 29%. New starters were 31.1% of care worker posts in Birmingham over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Birmingham ranks 1st of the 14 West Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the West Midlands sits at 5,450 filled care worker posts, against 18,500 in Birmingham. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Birmingham workforce, the same release records 1,500 filled senior care worker posts, 1,100 filled community support and outreach posts and 700 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Birmingham was £11.82 an hour for the care worker role and about £22,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Birmingham only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Birmingham earn a median of £38,556 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Birmingham at £24,700, £13,856 below it.