Care assistant jobs in Manchester

Skills for Care recorded 6,000 filled care worker posts in Manchester in 2024/25, out of 6,300 care worker posts in total. Around 375 of those care worker posts in Manchester were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 6.8% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Manchester.

The care worker role is 50% of the 12,000 filled adult social care posts in Manchester. Turnover in the care worker role in Manchester ran at 23.9%. New starters were 30.4% of care worker posts in Manchester over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Manchester ranks 4th 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 6,000 in Manchester. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Manchester workforce, the same release records 500 filled senior care worker posts, 600 filled community support and outreach posts and 225 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Manchester was £12.27 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Manchester only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Manchester earn a median of £40,479 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Manchester at £26,500, £13,979 below it.