Care assistant jobs in Middlesbrough

Skills for Care recorded 3,100 filled care worker posts in Middlesbrough in 2024/25, out of 3,300 care worker posts in total. Around 125 of those care worker posts in Middlesbrough were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 3.8% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Middlesbrough.

The care worker role is 43.1% of the 7,200 filled adult social care posts in Middlesbrough. Turnover in the care worker role in Middlesbrough ran at 25.3%. New starters were 24.9% of care worker posts in Middlesbrough over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Middlesbrough ranks 8th of the 12 North East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North East sits at 3,300 filled care worker posts, against 3,100 in Middlesbrough. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Middlesbrough workforce, the same release records 275 filled senior care worker posts, 325 filled community support and outreach posts and 125 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Middlesbrough was £12.11 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,300 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Middlesbrough only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Middlesbrough earn a median of £34,000 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Middlesbrough at £25,700, £8,300 below it.