Care assistant jobs in Blackburn with Darwen

Skills for Care recorded 2,200 filled care worker posts in Blackburn with Darwen in 2024/25, out of 2,400 care worker posts in total. Around 225 of those care worker posts in Blackburn with Darwen were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 12.4% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Blackburn with Darwen.

The care worker role is 50% of the 4,400 filled adult social care posts in Blackburn with Darwen. Turnover in the care worker role in Blackburn with Darwen ran at 31.9%. New starters were 50.1% of care worker posts in Blackburn with Darwen over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Blackburn with Darwen ranks 22nd of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 3,650 filled care worker posts, against 2,200 in Blackburn with Darwen. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Blackburn with Darwen workforce, the same release records 200 filled senior care worker posts, 275 filled community support and outreach posts and 100 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Blackburn with Darwen was £12.01 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Blackburn with Darwen only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Blackburn with Darwen earn a median of £36,223 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Blackburn with Darwen at £25,300, £10,923 below it.