Care assistant jobs in Buckinghamshire

Skills for Care recorded 7,500 filled care worker posts in Buckinghamshire in 2024/25, out of 8,100 care worker posts in total. Around 600 of those care worker posts in Buckinghamshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is an 8.4% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Buckinghamshire.

The care worker role is 60% of the 12,500 filled adult social care posts in Buckinghamshire. Turnover in the care worker role in Buckinghamshire ran at 29.7%. New starters were 48.3% of care worker posts in Buckinghamshire over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Buckinghamshire ranks 7th of the 19 South East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South East sits at 3,700 filled care worker posts, against 7,500 in Buckinghamshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Buckinghamshire workforce, the same release records 600 filled senior care worker posts, 175 filled community support and outreach posts and 400 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Buckinghamshire was £12.44 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Buckinghamshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Buckinghamshire earn a median of £40,365 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Buckinghamshire at £26,200, £14,165 below it.