Care assistant jobs in Trafford

Skills for Care recorded 3,000 filled care worker posts in Trafford in 2024/25, out of 3,200 care worker posts in total. Around 200 of those care worker posts in Trafford were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 6.4% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Trafford.

The care worker role is 55.6% of the 5,400 filled adult social care posts in Trafford. Turnover in the care worker role in Trafford ran at 30.9%. New starters were 41.2% of care worker posts in Trafford over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Trafford ranks 17th of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 3,650 filled care worker posts, against 3,000 in Trafford. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Trafford workforce, the same release records 275 filled senior care worker posts, 125 filled community support and outreach posts and 150 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Trafford was £12.18 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Trafford only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Trafford earn a median of £38,682 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Trafford at £25,600, £13,082 below it.