Care assistant jobs in Sutton

Skills for Care recorded 3,300 filled care worker posts in Sutton in 2024/25, out of 3,900 care worker posts in total. Around 600 of those care worker posts in Sutton were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 16.4% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Sutton.

The care worker role is 57.9% of the 5,700 filled adult social care posts in Sutton. Turnover in the care worker role in Sutton ran at 42.4%. New starters were 39.4% of care worker posts in Sutton over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Sutton ranks 19th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 3,600 filled care worker posts, against 3,300 in Sutton. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Sutton workforce, the same release records 250 filled senior care worker posts, 100 filled community support and outreach posts and 100 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Sutton was £12.90 an hour for the care worker role and about £24,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Sutton only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Sutton earn a median of £39,874 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Sutton at £26,800, £13,074 below it.