Care assistant jobs in Dudley

Skills for Care recorded 3,900 filled care worker posts in Dudley in 2024/25, out of 4,100 care worker posts in total. Around 175 of those care worker posts in Dudley were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 5% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Dudley.

The care worker role is 52.7% of the 7,400 filled adult social care posts in Dudley. Turnover in the care worker role in Dudley ran at 32%. New starters were 41.3% of care worker posts in Dudley over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Dudley ranks 11th of the 14 West Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the West Midlands sits at 5,450 filled care worker posts, against 3,900 in Dudley. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Dudley workforce, the same release records 450 filled senior care worker posts, 125 filled community support and outreach posts and 125 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Dudley was £11.77 an hour for the care worker role and about £22,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Dudley only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Dudley earn a median of £35,281 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Dudley at £24,800, £10,481 below it.