Care assistant jobs in Oxfordshire

Skills for Care recorded 9,600 filled care worker posts in Oxfordshire in 2024/25, out of 10,500 care worker posts in total. Around 1,000 of those care worker posts in Oxfordshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 10.7% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Oxfordshire.

The care worker role is 50.5% of the 19,000 filled adult social care posts in Oxfordshire. Turnover in the care worker role in Oxfordshire ran at 38.8%. New starters were 36.7% of care worker posts in Oxfordshire over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Oxfordshire ranks 5th 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 9,600 in Oxfordshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Oxfordshire workforce, the same release records 1,200 filled senior care worker posts, 475 filled community support and outreach posts and 700 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Oxfordshire was £12.43 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Oxfordshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Oxfordshire earn a median of £42,951 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Oxfordshire at £26,700, £16,251 below it.