Care assistant jobs in Devon

Skills for Care recorded 12,000 filled care worker posts in Devon in 2024/25, out of 12,500 care worker posts in total. Around 750 of those care worker posts in Devon were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 6.4% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Devon.

The care worker role is 48% of the 25,000 filled adult social care posts in Devon. Turnover in the care worker role in Devon ran at 36.5%. New starters were 38.2% of care worker posts in Devon over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Devon ranks 1st 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 12,000 in Devon. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Devon workforce, the same release records 1,500 filled senior care worker posts, 550 filled community support and outreach posts and 550 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Devon was £12.23 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,500 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Devon only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Devon earn a median of £34,939 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Devon at £25,400, £9,539 below it.