Adult social worker jobs in Oxfordshire

Skills for Care recorded 150 filled social worker posts in Oxfordshire in 2024/25, out of 175 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 0.8% of the 19,000 filled adult social care posts in Oxfordshire. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Oxfordshire, only 30.6% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Oxfordshire ranks 7th of the 19 South East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South East sits at 100 filled social worker posts, against 150 in Oxfordshire. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Oxfordshire workforce, the same release records 75 filled occupational therapist posts, 475 filled community support and outreach posts and 275 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Oxfordshire was £19.54 an hour for the social worker role and about £37,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Oxfordshire earn a median of £42,951 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Oxfordshire at £26,700, £16,251 below it.