Care assistant jobs in Liverpool

Skills for Care recorded 8,000 filled care worker posts in Liverpool in 2024/25, out of 8,700 care worker posts in total. Around 700 of those care worker posts in Liverpool were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 9.1% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Liverpool.

The care worker role is 53.3% of the 15,000 filled adult social care posts in Liverpool. Turnover in the care worker role in Liverpool ran at 31.2%. New starters were 42.4% of care worker posts in Liverpool over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Liverpool ranks 2nd 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 8,000 in Liverpool. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Liverpool workforce, the same release records 600 filled senior care worker posts, 375 filled community support and outreach posts and 325 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Liverpool was £12.16 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 Liverpool only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Liverpool earn a median of £38,430 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Liverpool at £25,700, £12,730 below it.