Care assistant jobs in Somerset

Skills for Care recorded 9,200 filled care worker posts in Somerset in 2024/25, out of 10,000 care worker posts in total. Around 900 of those care worker posts in Somerset were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 9.4% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Somerset.

The care worker role is 51.1% of the 18,000 filled adult social care posts in Somerset. Turnover in the care worker role in Somerset ran at 28.6%. New starters were 40.4% of care worker posts in Somerset over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Somerset ranks 3rd of the 14 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 6,250 filled care worker posts, against 9,200 in Somerset. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Somerset workforce, the same release records 1,100 filled senior care worker posts, 350 filled community support and outreach posts and 500 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Somerset was £12.21 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,500 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Somerset only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Somerset earn a median of £35,440 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Somerset at £25,400, £10,040 below it.