Care assistant jobs in Milton Keynes

Skills for Care recorded 5,700 filled care worker posts in Milton Keynes in 2024/25, out of 6,000 care worker posts in total. Around 350 of those care worker posts in Milton Keynes were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 6.7% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Milton Keynes.

The care worker role is 58.8% of the 9,700 filled adult social care posts in Milton Keynes. Turnover in the care worker role in Milton Keynes ran at 28.1%. New starters were 30.7% of care worker posts in Milton Keynes over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Milton Keynes ranks 8th 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 5,700 in Milton Keynes. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Milton Keynes workforce, the same release records 375 filled senior care worker posts, 375 filled community support and outreach posts and 150 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Milton Keynes was £12.20 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,500 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Milton Keynes only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Milton Keynes earn a median of £41,516 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Milton Keynes at £25,400, £16,116 below it.