Support worker jobs in Peterborough

Skills for Care recorded 150 filled community support and outreach posts in Peterborough in 2024/25, out of 150 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 4.5% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Peterborough.

The community support and outreach role is 1.9% of the 7,900 filled adult social care posts in Peterborough. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Peterborough ran at 27.3%. New starters were 33.2% of community support and outreach posts in Peterborough over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Peterborough ranks 8th of the 11 East of England areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East of England sits at 175 filled community support and outreach posts, against 150 in Peterborough. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Peterborough workforce, the same release records 4,500 filled care worker posts, 400 filled senior care worker posts and 50 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Peterborough was £12.00 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £23,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Peterborough only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Peterborough earn a median of £36,050 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Peterborough at £25,000, £11,050 below it.