Senior care assistant jobs in Essex

Skills for Care recorded 2,100 filled senior care worker posts in Essex in 2024/25, out of 2,200 senior care worker posts in total. Around 75 of those senior care worker posts in Essex were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 3.3% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Essex.

The senior care worker role is 5.5% of the 38,000 filled adult social care posts in Essex. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Essex ran at 11.1%. New starters were 9.6% of senior care worker posts in Essex over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Essex ranks 1st of the 11 East of England areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East of England sits at 400 filled senior care worker posts, against 2,100 in Essex. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Essex workforce, the same release records 21,000 filled care worker posts, 200 filled deputy manager posts and 750 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Essex was £12.79 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £24,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Essex only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Essex earn a median of £38,098 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Essex at £25,300, £12,798 below it.