Care assistant jobs in Bradford

Skills for Care recorded 8,100 filled care worker posts in Bradford in 2024/25, out of 8,500 care worker posts in total. Around 450 of those care worker posts in Bradford were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 6.1% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Bradford.

The care worker role is 49.1% of the 16,500 filled adult social care posts in Bradford. Turnover in the care worker role in Bradford ran at 29.2%. New starters were 34% of care worker posts in Bradford over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Bradford ranks 4th 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 8,100 in Bradford. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Bradford workforce, the same release records 900 filled senior care worker posts, 500 filled community support and outreach posts and 275 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Bradford was £11.98 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Bradford only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Bradford earn a median of £35,213 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Bradford at £25,400, £9,813 below it.