Care assistant jobs in Halton

Skills for Care recorded 1,300 filled care worker posts in Halton in 2024/25, out of 1,500 care worker posts in total. Around 150 of those care worker posts in Halton were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 13.3% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Halton.

The care worker role is 35.1% of the 3,700 filled adult social care posts in Halton. Turnover in the care worker role in Halton ran at 23.4%. New starters were 24.9% of care worker posts in Halton over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Halton ranks 24th of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 3,650 filled care worker posts, against 1,300 in Halton. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Halton workforce, the same release records 100 filled senior care worker posts, 300 filled community support and outreach posts and 100 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Halton was £12.81 an hour for the care worker role and about £24,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Halton only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Halton earn a median of £37,336 a year, counting every occupation in the area together.