Care assistant jobs in Bolton

Skills for Care recorded 4,200 filled care worker posts in Bolton in 2024/25, out of 4,500 care worker posts in total. Around 300 of those care worker posts in Bolton were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 7.7% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Bolton.

The care worker role is 49.4% of the 8,500 filled adult social care posts in Bolton. Turnover in the care worker role in Bolton ran at 20.4%. New starters were 34.5% of care worker posts in Bolton over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Bolton ranks 10th 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 4,200 in Bolton. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Bolton workforce, the same release records 375 filled senior care worker posts, 250 filled community support and outreach posts and 125 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Bolton was £12.04 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,200 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Bolton only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Bolton earn a median of £33,008 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Bolton at £25,300, £7,708 below it.