Adult social worker jobs in Nottingham

Skills for Care recorded 150 filled social worker posts in Nottingham in 2024/25, out of 150 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.3% of the 12,000 filled adult social care posts in Nottingham. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Nottingham, only 25.6% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Nottingham ranks 3rd 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 150 in Nottingham. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Nottingham workforce, the same release records 25 filled occupational therapist posts, 550 filled community support and outreach posts and 200 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Nottingham was £21.08 an hour for the social worker role and about £40,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Nottingham 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 Nottingham: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Nottingham earn a median of £34,868 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Nottingham at £24,900, £9,968 below it.