Care assistant jobs in Nottinghamshire

Skills for Care recorded 14,500 filled care worker posts in Nottinghamshire in 2024/25, out of 16,000 care worker posts in total. Around 1,300 of those care worker posts in Nottinghamshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 9% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Nottinghamshire.

The care worker role is 53.7% of the 27,000 filled adult social care posts in Nottinghamshire. Turnover in the care worker role in Nottinghamshire ran at 31.9%. New starters were 38.5% of care worker posts in Nottinghamshire over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Nottinghamshire ranks 1st 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 14,500 in Nottinghamshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Nottinghamshire workforce, the same release records 1,400 filled senior care worker posts, 950 filled community support and outreach posts and 600 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Nottinghamshire was £11.98 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Nottinghamshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Nottinghamshire earn a median of £33,751 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Nottinghamshire at £25,000, £8,751 below it.