Care assistant jobs in Rutland

Skills for Care recorded 600 filled care worker posts in Rutland in 2024/25, out of 700 care worker posts in total. Around 75 of those care worker posts in Rutland were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 12.1% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Rutland.

The care worker role is 54.5% of the 1,100 filled adult social care posts in Rutland. Turnover in the care worker role in Rutland ran at 25%. New starters were 35.6% of care worker posts in Rutland over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Rutland ranks 10th 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 600 in Rutland. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Rutland workforce, the same release records 75 filled senior care worker posts, 25 filled community support and outreach posts and 25 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Rutland was £12.45 an hour for the care worker role and about £24,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Rutland only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Rutland earn a median of £38,186 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Rutland at £26,400, £11,786 below it.