Care assistant jobs in Hillingdon

Skills for Care recorded 4,100 filled care worker posts in Hillingdon in 2024/25, out of 4,500 care worker posts in total. Around 425 of those care worker posts in Hillingdon were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 12.9% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Hillingdon.

The care worker role is 61.2% of the 6,700 filled adult social care posts in Hillingdon. Turnover in the care worker role in Hillingdon ran at 18.1%. New starters were 30.8% of care worker posts in Hillingdon over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Hillingdon ranks 8th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 3,600 filled care worker posts, against 4,100 in Hillingdon. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Hillingdon workforce, the same release records 275 filled senior care worker posts, 150 filled community support and outreach posts and 125 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Hillingdon was £12.18 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Hillingdon only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Hillingdon earn a median of £41,422 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Hillingdon at £25,200, £16,222 below it.