Care assistant jobs in Cheshire East

Skills for Care recorded 6,500 filled care worker posts in Cheshire East in 2024/25, out of 6,900 care worker posts in total. Around 450 of those care worker posts in Cheshire East were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 6.9% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Cheshire East.

The care worker role is 54.2% of the 12,000 filled adult social care posts in Cheshire East. Turnover in the care worker role in Cheshire East ran at 20%. New starters were 26.5% of care worker posts in Cheshire East over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Cheshire East ranks 3rd 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 6,500 in Cheshire East. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Cheshire East workforce, the same release records 800 filled senior care worker posts, 300 filled community support and outreach posts and 425 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Cheshire East was £12.47 an hour for the care worker role and about £24,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Cheshire East only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Cheshire East earn a median of £39,459 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Cheshire East at £26,000, £13,459 below it.