Care assistant jobs in Cornwall

Skills for Care recorded 8,600 filled care worker posts in Cornwall in 2024/25, out of 9,600 care worker posts in total. Around 1,000 of those care worker posts in Cornwall were vacant when the data was collected. That is an 11.3% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Cornwall.

The care worker role is 49.1% of the 17,500 filled adult social care posts in Cornwall. Turnover in the care worker role in Cornwall ran at 26.5%. New starters were 28.9% of care worker posts in Cornwall over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Cornwall ranks 4th of the 14 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 6,250 filled care worker posts, against 8,600 in Cornwall. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Cornwall workforce, the same release records 950 filled senior care worker posts, 325 filled community support and outreach posts and 350 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Cornwall was £12.30 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Cornwall only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Cornwall earn a median of £33,889 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Cornwall at £25,800, £8,089 below it.