Care home nurse jobs in Cambridgeshire

Skills for Care recorded 375 filled registered nurse posts in Cambridgeshire in 2024/25, out of 475 registered nurse posts in total. Around 100 of those registered nurse posts in Cambridgeshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 22.3% vacancy rate for the registered nurse role in Cambridgeshire.

The registered nurse role is 2.3% of the 16,000 filled adult social care posts in Cambridgeshire. Turnover in the registered nurse role in Cambridgeshire ran at 24.8%. New starters were 27.6% of registered nurse posts in Cambridgeshire over the year.

On filled registered nurse posts, Cambridgeshire ranks 5th of the 11 East of England areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East of England sits at 150 filled registered nurse posts, against 375 in Cambridgeshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 150.

For the shape of the rest of the Cambridgeshire workforce, the same release records 850 filled senior care worker posts, 275 filled registered manager posts and 8,600 filled care worker posts.

Reported median pay in Cambridgeshire was £22.25 an hour for the registered nurse role and about £42,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Cambridgeshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Cambridgeshire earn a median of £42,323 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Cambridgeshire at £26,100, £16,223 below it.