Care assistant jobs in Walsall

Skills for Care recorded 4,300 filled care worker posts in Walsall in 2024/25, out of 5,000 care worker posts in total. Around 700 of those care worker posts in Walsall were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 14.5% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Walsall.

The care worker role is 56.6% of the 7,600 filled adult social care posts in Walsall. Turnover in the care worker role in Walsall ran at 21.7%. New starters were 31.3% of care worker posts in Walsall over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Walsall ranks 10th of the 14 West Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the West Midlands sits at 5,450 filled care worker posts, against 4,300 in Walsall. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Walsall workforce, the same release records 350 filled senior care worker posts, 125 filled community support and outreach posts and 150 filled registered nurse posts.

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

Full-time workers in Walsall earn a median of £34,980 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Walsall at £25,600, £9,380 below it.