Care assistant jobs in Sunderland

Skills for Care recorded 4,000 filled care worker posts in Sunderland in 2024/25, out of 4,300 care worker posts in total. Around 350 of those care worker posts in Sunderland were vacant when the data was collected. That is an 8.4% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Sunderland.

The care worker role is 51.9% of the 7,700 filled adult social care posts in Sunderland. Turnover in the care worker role in Sunderland ran at 25.2%. New starters were 30% of care worker posts in Sunderland over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Sunderland ranks 4th of the 12 North East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North East sits at 3,300 filled care worker posts, against 4,000 in Sunderland. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Sunderland workforce, the same release records 375 filled senior care worker posts, 150 filled community support and outreach posts and 200 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Sunderland was £12.08 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,200 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Sunderland only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Sunderland earn a median of £32,015 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Sunderland at £25,700, £6,315 below it.