Adult social worker jobs in Derbyshire

Skills for Care recorded 650 filled social worker posts in Derbyshire in 2024/25, out of 750 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 2.8% of the 23,500 filled adult social care posts in Derbyshire. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Derbyshire, only 22% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Derbyshire ranks 1st of the 9 East Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East Midlands sits at 125 filled social worker posts, against 650 in Derbyshire. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Derbyshire workforce, the same release records 50 filled occupational therapist posts, 375 filled community support and outreach posts and 350 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Derbyshire was £17.79 an hour for the social worker role and about £34,200 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Derbyshire 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 Derbyshire: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Derbyshire earn a median of £36,011 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Derbyshire at £25,500, £10,511 below it.