Care assistant jobs in Slough

Skills for Care recorded 1,400 filled care worker posts in Slough in 2024/25, out of 1,600 care worker posts in total. Around 175 of those care worker posts in Slough were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 13.2% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Slough.

The care worker role is 45.2% of the 3,100 filled adult social care posts in Slough. Turnover in the care worker role in Slough ran at 19.4%. New starters were 36.6% of care worker posts in Slough over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Slough ranks 18th of the 19 South East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South East sits at 3,700 filled care worker posts, against 1,400 in Slough. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Slough workforce, the same release records 125 filled senior care worker posts, 50 filled community support and outreach posts and 50 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Slough was £11.83 an hour for the care worker role and about £22,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Slough only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Slough earn a median of £42,027 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Slough at £25,700, £16,327 below it.