Senior care assistant jobs in Wigan

Skills for Care recorded 425 filled senior care worker posts in Wigan in 2024/25, out of 425 senior care worker posts in total. Around 10 of those senior care worker posts in Wigan were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 3.6% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Wigan.

The senior care worker role is 4.5% of the 9,400 filled adult social care posts in Wigan. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Wigan ran at 15.1%. New starters were 8.5% of senior care worker posts in Wigan over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Wigan ranks 8th of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 312.5 filled senior care worker posts, against 425 in Wigan. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Wigan workforce, the same release records 4,400 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 100 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Wigan was £12.87 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £24,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Wigan only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Wigan earn a median of £33,669 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Wigan at £26,000, £7,669 below it.