Support worker jobs in Milton Keynes

Skills for Care recorded 375 filled community support and outreach posts in Milton Keynes in 2024/25, out of 375 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 10 of those community support and outreach posts in Milton Keynes were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 3.6% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Milton Keynes.

The community support and outreach role is 3.9% of the 9,700 filled adult social care posts in Milton Keynes. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Milton Keynes ran at 14.5%. New starters were 15.3% of community support and outreach posts in Milton Keynes over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Milton Keynes ranks 6th of the 19 South East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South East sits at 200 filled community support and outreach posts, against 375 in Milton Keynes. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Milton Keynes workforce, the same release records 5,700 filled care worker posts, 375 filled senior care worker posts and 75 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Milton Keynes was £12.16 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £23,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Milton Keynes only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Milton Keynes earn a median of £41,516 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Milton Keynes at £25,400, £16,116 below it.