Senior care assistant jobs in Croydon

Skills for Care recorded 600 filled senior care worker posts in Croydon in 2024/25, out of 650 senior care worker posts in total. Around 50 of those senior care worker posts in Croydon were vacant when the data was collected. That is an 8.1% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Croydon.

The senior care worker role is 5.2% of the 11,500 filled adult social care posts in Croydon. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Croydon ran at 6.9%. New starters were 12.8% of senior care worker posts in Croydon over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Croydon ranks 2nd of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 250 filled senior care worker posts, against 600 in Croydon. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Croydon workforce, the same release records 6,500 filled care worker posts, 50 filled deputy manager posts and 275 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Croydon was £13.36 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £25,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Croydon only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Croydon earn a median of £40,033 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Croydon at £26,600, £13,433 below it.