Care assistant jobs in Salford

Skills for Care recorded 3,300 filled care worker posts in Salford in 2024/25, out of 3,700 care worker posts in total. Around 325 of those care worker posts in Salford were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 9.5% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Salford.

The care worker role is 54.1% of the 6,100 filled adult social care posts in Salford. Turnover in the care worker role in Salford ran at 32.4%. New starters were 48.2% of care worker posts in Salford over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Salford ranks 15th 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 3,300 in Salford. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Salford workforce, the same release records 275 filled senior care worker posts, 200 filled community support and outreach posts and 100 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Salford was £12.09 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Salford only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Salford earn a median of £38,492 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Salford at £25,400, £13,092 below it.