Care assistant jobs in York

Skills for Care recorded 3,400 filled care worker posts in York in 2024/25, out of 3,600 care worker posts in total. Around 175 of those care worker posts in York were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 5.4% vacancy rate for the care worker role in York.

The care worker role is 54% of the 6,300 filled adult social care posts in York. Turnover in the care worker role in York ran at 31.4%. New starters were 29.6% of care worker posts in York over the year.

On filled care worker posts, York ranks 12th of the 15 Yorkshire and The Humber areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of Yorkshire and The Humber sits at 4,900 filled care worker posts, against 3,400 in York. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the York workforce, the same release records 300 filled senior care worker posts, 225 filled community support and outreach posts and 125 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in York was £12.28 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in York only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in York earn a median of £39,337 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in York at £25,400, £13,937 below it.