Care assistant jobs in Kirklees

Skills for Care recorded 5,800 filled care worker posts in Kirklees in 2024/25, out of 6,100 care worker posts in total. Around 225 of those care worker posts in Kirklees were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 4% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Kirklees.

The care worker role is 50.4% of the 11,500 filled adult social care posts in Kirklees. Turnover in the care worker role in Kirklees ran at 29.3%. New starters were 41.6% of care worker posts in Kirklees over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Kirklees ranks 5th 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 5,800 in Kirklees. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Kirklees workforce, the same release records 600 filled senior care worker posts, 225 filled community support and outreach posts and 200 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Kirklees was £12.01 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 Kirklees only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Kirklees earn a median of £33,613 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Kirklees at £25,000, £8,613 below it.