Adult social worker jobs in Middlesbrough

Skills for Care recorded 100 filled social worker posts in Middlesbrough in 2024/25, out of 100 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.4% of the 7,200 filled adult social care posts in Middlesbrough. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Middlesbrough, only 20.3% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Middlesbrough ranks 6th of the 12 North East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North East sits at 100 filled social worker posts, against 100 in Middlesbrough. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Middlesbrough workforce, the same release records 25 filled occupational therapist posts, 325 filled community support and outreach posts and 75 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Middlesbrough was £18.60 an hour for the social worker role and about £35,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Middlesbrough 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 Middlesbrough: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Middlesbrough earn a median of £34,000 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Middlesbrough at £25,700, £8,300 below it.