Care assistant jobs in Derby

Skills for Care recorded 4,700 filled care worker posts in Derby in 2024/25, out of 5,200 care worker posts in total. Around 475 of those care worker posts in Derby were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 9.8% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Derby.

The care worker role is 54% of the 8,700 filled adult social care posts in Derby. Turnover in the care worker role in Derby ran at 37.4%. New starters were 32.3% of care worker posts in Derby over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Derby ranks 9th of the 10 East Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East Midlands sits at 7,350 filled care worker posts, against 4,700 in Derby. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Derby workforce, the same release records 400 filled senior care worker posts, 250 filled community support and outreach posts and 175 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Derby was £12.02 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Derby only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Derby earn a median of £41,924 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Derby at £25,000, £16,924 below it.