Adult social worker jobs in Barnsley

Skills for Care recorded 75 filled social worker posts in Barnsley in 2024/25, out of 75 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.2% of the 6,400 filled adult social care posts in Barnsley. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Barnsley, only 15.1% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Barnsley ranks 11th of the 15 Yorkshire and The Humber areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of Yorkshire and The Humber sits at 125 filled social worker posts, against 75 in Barnsley. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Barnsley workforce, the same release records 100 filled community support and outreach posts and 125 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Barnsley was £19.75 an hour for the social worker role and about £38,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Barnsley only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Skills for Care withholds a vacancy rate, a turnover rate for the social worker role in Barnsley: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Barnsley earn a median of £35,629 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Barnsley at £25,300, £10,329 below it.