Care assistant jobs in Southampton

Skills for Care recorded 3,500 filled care worker posts in Southampton in 2024/25, out of 3,700 care worker posts in total. Around 275 of those care worker posts in Southampton were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 7.8% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Southampton.

The care worker role is 57.4% of the 6,100 filled adult social care posts in Southampton. Turnover in the care worker role in Southampton ran at 30.3%. New starters were 39.4% of care worker posts in Southampton over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Southampton ranks 11th 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 3,500 in Southampton. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Southampton workforce, the same release records 350 filled senior care worker posts, 175 filled community support and outreach posts and 100 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Southampton was £12.37 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Southampton only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Southampton earn a median of £39,464 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Southampton at £26,200, £13,264 below it.