Support worker jobs in Southampton

Skills for Care recorded 175 filled community support and outreach posts in Southampton in 2024/25, out of 175 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 3.9% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Southampton.

The community support and outreach role is 2.9% of the 6,100 filled adult social care posts in Southampton. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Southampton ran at 18.1%. New starters were 18% of community support and outreach posts in Southampton over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Southampton ranks 12th 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 175 in Southampton. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Southampton workforce, the same release records 3,500 filled care worker posts, 350 filled senior care worker posts and 75 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Southampton was £13.16 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £25,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Southampton only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Southampton earn a median of £39,464 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Southampton at £26,200, £13,264 below it.