Care assistant jobs in Knowsley

Skills for Care recorded 2,100 filled care worker posts in Knowsley in 2024/25, out of 2,400 care worker posts in total. Around 275 of those care worker posts in Knowsley were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 12% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Knowsley.

The care worker role is 40.4% of the 5,200 filled adult social care posts in Knowsley. Turnover in the care worker role in Knowsley ran at 19.4%. New starters were 28% of care worker posts in Knowsley over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Knowsley ranks 23rd of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 3,650 filled care worker posts, against 2,100 in Knowsley. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Knowsley workforce, the same release records 150 filled senior care worker posts, 75 filled community support and outreach posts and 75 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Knowsley was £12.28 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 Knowsley only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Knowsley earn a median of £39,064 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Knowsley at £25,800, £13,264 below it.