Senior care assistant jobs in Hampshire

Skills for Care recorded 2,300 filled senior care worker posts in Hampshire in 2024/25, out of 2,500 senior care worker posts in total. Around 175 of those senior care worker posts in Hampshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 6.9% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Hampshire.

The senior care worker role is 5.6% of the 41,000 filled adult social care posts in Hampshire. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Hampshire ran at 24.8%. New starters were 23.5% of senior care worker posts in Hampshire over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Hampshire ranks 2nd of the 19 South East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South East sits at 350 filled senior care worker posts, against 2,300 in Hampshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Hampshire workforce, the same release records 21,500 filled care worker posts, 250 filled deputy manager posts and 750 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Hampshire was £12.99 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £25,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Hampshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Hampshire earn a median of £39,324 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Hampshire at £25,700, £13,624 below it.