Senior care assistant jobs in Isle of Wight

Skills for Care recorded 325 filled senior care worker posts in Isle of Wight in 2024/25, out of 350 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 1.1% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Isle of Wight.

The senior care worker role is 6.1% of the 5,300 filled adult social care posts in Isle of Wight. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Isle of Wight ran at 13%. New starters were 16.3% of senior care worker posts in Isle of Wight over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Isle of Wight ranks 12th 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 325 in Isle of Wight. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Isle of Wight workforce, the same release records 2,400 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 75 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Isle of Wight was £13.49 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £26,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Isle of Wight only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Isle of Wight earn a median of £28,543 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Isle of Wight at £25,400, £3,143 below it.