Adult social worker jobs in Wiltshire

Skills for Care recorded 200 filled social worker posts in Wiltshire in 2024/25, out of 200 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.4% of the 14,000 filled adult social care posts in Wiltshire. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Wiltshire, only 25.6% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Wiltshire ranks 4th of the 14 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 137.5 filled social worker posts, against 200 in Wiltshire. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Wiltshire workforce, the same release records 75 filled occupational therapist posts, 175 filled community support and outreach posts and 275 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Wiltshire was £20.88 an hour for the social worker role and about £40,200 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Wiltshire earn a median of £36,370 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Wiltshire at £26,100, £10,270 below it.