Care assistant jobs in Gateshead

Skills for Care recorded 3,400 filled care worker posts in Gateshead in 2024/25, out of 3,700 care worker posts in total. Around 275 of those care worker posts in Gateshead were vacant when the data was collected. That is an 8.3% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Gateshead.

The care worker role is 54.8% of the 6,200 filled adult social care posts in Gateshead. Turnover in the care worker role in Gateshead ran at 31.2%. New starters were 30.5% of care worker posts in Gateshead over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Gateshead ranks 6th of the 12 North East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North East sits at 3,300 filled care worker posts, against 3,400 in Gateshead. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Gateshead workforce, the same release records 275 filled senior care worker posts, 75 filled community support and outreach posts and 150 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Gateshead was £12.10 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Gateshead only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Gateshead earn a median of £33,670 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Gateshead at £25,200, £8,470 below it.