Care assistant jobs in Kent

Skills for Care recorded 23,000 filled care worker posts in Kent in 2024/25, out of 25,000 care worker posts in total. Around 1,600 of those care worker posts in Kent were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 7.5% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Kent.

The care worker role is 52.3% of the 44,000 filled adult social care posts in Kent. Turnover in the care worker role in Kent ran at 23.7%. New starters were 32.7% of care worker posts in Kent over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Kent ranks 1st of the 19 South East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South East sits at 3,700 filled care worker posts, against 23,000 in Kent. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Kent workforce, the same release records 2,500 filled senior care worker posts, 1,500 filled community support and outreach posts and 1,200 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Kent was £12.14 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 Kent only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Kent earn a median of £36,127 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Kent at £25,300, £10,827 below it.