Care assistant jobs in Rochdale

Skills for Care recorded 3,500 filled care worker posts in Rochdale in 2024/25, out of 3,600 care worker posts in total. Around 25 of those care worker posts in Rochdale were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 1.1% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Rochdale.

The care worker role is 48.6% of the 7,200 filled adult social care posts in Rochdale. Turnover in the care worker role in Rochdale ran at 22.5%. New starters were 22.5% of care worker posts in Rochdale over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Rochdale ranks 13th of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 3,650 filled care worker posts, against 3,500 in Rochdale. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Rochdale workforce, the same release records 325 filled senior care worker posts, 175 filled community support and outreach posts and 100 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Rochdale was £12.01 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 Rochdale only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Rochdale earn a median of £33,558 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Rochdale at £25,000, £8,558 below it.