Care assistant jobs in Hampshire

Skills for Care recorded 21,500 filled care worker posts in Hampshire in 2024/25, out of 23,500 care worker posts in total. Around 1,800 of those care worker posts in Hampshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is an 8.7% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Hampshire.

The care worker role is 52.4% of the 41,000 filled adult social care posts in Hampshire. Turnover in the care worker role in Hampshire ran at 40.6%. New starters were 40.4% of care worker posts in Hampshire over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Hampshire ranks 2nd of the 19 South East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South East sits at 3,700 filled care worker posts, against 21,500 in Hampshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Hampshire workforce, the same release records 2,300 filled senior care worker posts, 1,000 filled community support and outreach posts and 1,300 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Hampshire was £12.26 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Hampshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Hampshire earn a median of £39,324 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Hampshire at £25,700, £13,624 below it.