Senior care assistant jobs in Swindon

Skills for Care recorded 275 filled senior care worker posts in Swindon in 2024/25, out of 300 senior care worker posts in total. Around 25 of those senior care worker posts in Swindon were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 9.5% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Swindon.

The senior care worker role is 5.4% of the 5,100 filled adult social care posts in Swindon. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Swindon ran at 9.7%. New starters were 8.8% of senior care worker posts in Swindon over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Swindon ranks 13th of the 14 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 725 filled senior care worker posts, against 275 in Swindon. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Swindon workforce, the same release records 2,600 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 100 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Swindon was £13.68 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £26,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Swindon only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Swindon earn a median of £40,280 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Swindon at £26,100, £14,180 below it.