Care assistant jobs in West Berkshire

Skills for Care recorded 1,900 filled care worker posts in West Berkshire in 2024/25, out of 2,300 care worker posts in total. Around 375 of those care worker posts in West Berkshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 19.1% vacancy rate for the care worker role in West Berkshire.

The care worker role is 54.3% of the 3,500 filled adult social care posts in West Berkshire. Turnover in the care worker role in West Berkshire ran at 20%. New starters were 20.8% of care worker posts in West Berkshire over the year.

On filled care worker posts, West Berkshire ranks 17th 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 1,900 in West Berkshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the West Berkshire workforce, the same release records 225 filled senior care worker posts, 50 filled community support and outreach posts and 50 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in West Berkshire was £12.32 an hour for the care worker role and about £23,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in West Berkshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in West Berkshire earn a median of £42,135 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in West Berkshire at £26,400, £15,735 below it.