Care assistant jobs in Nottingham

Skills for Care recorded 6,800 filled care worker posts in Nottingham in 2024/25, out of 8,000 care worker posts in total. Around 1,100 of those care worker posts in Nottingham were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 15.3% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Nottingham.

The care worker role is 56.7% of the 12,000 filled adult social care posts in Nottingham. Turnover in the care worker role in Nottingham ran at 34.5%. New starters were 38.9% of care worker posts in Nottingham over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Nottingham ranks 6th of the 10 East Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East Midlands sits at 7,350 filled care worker posts, against 6,800 in Nottingham. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Nottingham workforce, the same release records 475 filled senior care worker posts, 550 filled community support and outreach posts and 150 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Nottingham was £11.98 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Nottingham only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Nottingham earn a median of £34,868 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Nottingham at £24,900, £9,968 below it.