Care assistant jobs in North Yorkshire

Skills for Care recorded 9,600 filled care worker posts in North Yorkshire in 2024/25, out of 10,500 care worker posts in total. Around 850 of those care worker posts in North Yorkshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 9% vacancy rate for the care worker role in North Yorkshire.

The care worker role is 53.3% of the 18,000 filled adult social care posts in North Yorkshire. Turnover in the care worker role in North Yorkshire ran at 30%. New starters were 36.3% of care worker posts in North Yorkshire over the year.

On filled care worker posts, North Yorkshire ranks 2nd of the 15 Yorkshire and The Humber areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of Yorkshire and The Humber sits at 4,900 filled care worker posts, against 9,600 in North Yorkshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the North Yorkshire workforce, the same release records 1,000 filled senior care worker posts, 225 filled community support and outreach posts and 500 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in North Yorkshire was £12.51 an hour for the care worker role and about £24,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in North Yorkshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in North Yorkshire earn a median of £34,785 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in North Yorkshire at £26,300, £8,485 below it.