Care assistant jobs in Leicestershire

Skills for Care recorded 9,800 filled care worker posts in Leicestershire in 2024/25, out of 10,500 care worker posts in total. Around 600 of those care worker posts in Leicestershire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 6.1% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Leicestershire.

The care worker role is 56% of the 17,500 filled adult social care posts in Leicestershire. Turnover in the care worker role in Leicestershire ran at 28.8%. New starters were 30.3% of care worker posts in Leicestershire over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Leicestershire ranks 4th of the 10 East Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East Midlands sits at 7,350 filled care worker posts, against 9,800 in Leicestershire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Leicestershire workforce, the same release records 1,000 filled senior care worker posts, 600 filled community support and outreach posts and 225 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Leicestershire was £11.94 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Leicestershire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Leicestershire earn a median of £36,208 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Leicestershire at £24,700, £11,508 below it.