Care assistant jobs in Gloucestershire

Skills for Care recorded 12,000 filled care worker posts in Gloucestershire in 2024/25, out of 12,500 care worker posts in total. Around 800 of those care worker posts in Gloucestershire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 7.1% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Gloucestershire.

The care worker role is 58.5% of the 20,500 filled adult social care posts in Gloucestershire. Turnover in the care worker role in Gloucestershire ran at 32.1%. New starters were 39.2% of care worker posts in Gloucestershire over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Gloucestershire ranks 2nd 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 Gloucestershire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Gloucestershire workforce, the same release records 1,300 filled senior care worker posts, 325 filled community support and outreach posts and 600 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Gloucestershire was £12.38 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Gloucestershire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Gloucestershire earn a median of £37,598 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Gloucestershire at £25,700, £11,898 below it.