Care assistant jobs in Stoke-on-Trent

Skills for Care recorded 4,800 filled care worker posts in Stoke-on-Trent in 2024/25, out of 5,200 care worker posts in total. Around 425 of those care worker posts in Stoke-on-Trent were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 9.1% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Stoke-on-Trent.

The care worker role is 60% of the 8,000 filled adult social care posts in Stoke-on-Trent. Turnover in the care worker role in Stoke-on-Trent ran at 41.3%. New starters were 42.5% of care worker posts in Stoke-on-Trent over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Stoke-on-Trent ranks 9th of the 14 West Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the West Midlands sits at 5,450 filled care worker posts, against 4,800 in Stoke-on-Trent. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Stoke-on-Trent workforce, the same release records 425 filled senior care worker posts, 150 filled community support and outreach posts and 275 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Stoke-on-Trent was £11.98 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Stoke-on-Trent only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Stoke-on-Trent earn a median of £34,744 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Stoke-on-Trent at £25,200, £9,544 below it.