Support worker jobs in Stockport

Skills for Care recorded 250 filled community support and outreach posts in Stockport in 2024/25, out of 250 community support and outreach posts in total. That is a 2.3% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Stockport.

The community support and outreach role is 3.1% of the 8,100 filled adult social care posts in Stockport. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Stockport ran at 16.2%. New starters were 19.9% of community support and outreach posts in Stockport over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Stockport ranks 13th of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 250 filled community support and outreach posts, against 250 in Stockport. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Stockport workforce, the same release records 4,900 filled care worker posts, 400 filled senior care worker posts and 125 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Stockport 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 Stockport only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Stockport earn a median of £35,406 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Stockport at £25,600, £9,806 below it.