Care assistant jobs in Barking and Dagenham

Skills for Care recorded 3,700 filled care worker posts in Barking and Dagenham in 2024/25, out of 4,100 care worker posts in total. Around 425 of those care worker posts in Barking and Dagenham were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 10.8% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Barking and Dagenham.

The care worker role is 56.9% of the 6,500 filled adult social care posts in Barking and Dagenham. Turnover in the care worker role in Barking and Dagenham ran at 11.9%. New starters were 36.9% of care worker posts in Barking and Dagenham over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Barking and Dagenham ranks 14th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 3,600 filled care worker posts, against 3,700 in Barking and Dagenham. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Barking and Dagenham workforce, the same release records 250 filled senior care worker posts, 125 filled community support and outreach posts and 75 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Barking and Dagenham was £11.90 an hour for the care worker role and about £22,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Barking and Dagenham only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Barking and Dagenham earn a median of £39,599 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Barking and Dagenham at £25,200, £14,399 below it.