Care assistant jobs in West Sussex

Skills for Care recorded 13,000 filled care worker posts in West Sussex in 2024/25, out of 14,000 care worker posts in total. Around 1,000 of those care worker posts in West Sussex were vacant when the data was collected. That is an 8.1% vacancy rate for the care worker role in West Sussex.

The care worker role is 53.1% of the 24,500 filled adult social care posts in West Sussex. Turnover in the care worker role in West Sussex ran at 28.6%. New starters were 33.7% of care worker posts in West Sussex over the year.

On filled care worker posts, West Sussex ranks 4th 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 13,000 in West Sussex. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the West Sussex workforce, the same release records 1,600 filled senior care worker posts, 350 filled community support and outreach posts and 850 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in West Sussex was £12.33 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in West Sussex only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in West Sussex earn a median of £37,916 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in West Sussex at £26,000, £11,916 below it.