Care assistant jobs in Wirral

Skills for Care recorded 4,500 filled care worker posts in Wirral in 2024/25, out of 4,900 care worker posts in total. Around 350 of those care worker posts in Wirral were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 7.7% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Wirral.

The care worker role is 46.9% of the 9,600 filled adult social care posts in Wirral. Turnover in the care worker role in Wirral ran at 29.9%. New starters were 42.4% of care worker posts in Wirral over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Wirral ranks 8th 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 4,500 in Wirral. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Wirral workforce, the same release records 475 filled senior care worker posts, 375 filled community support and outreach posts and 300 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Wirral was £12.32 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 Wirral only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Wirral earn a median of £35,483 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Wirral at £25,800, £9,683 below it.