Care assistant jobs in Wigan

Skills for Care recorded 4,400 filled care worker posts in Wigan in 2024/25, out of 4,500 care worker posts in total. Around 150 of those care worker posts in Wigan were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 3.3% vacancy rate for the care worker role in Wigan.

The care worker role is 46.8% of the 9,400 filled adult social care posts in Wigan. Turnover in the care worker role in Wigan ran at 22.7%. New starters were 19.8% of care worker posts in Wigan over the year.

On filled care worker posts, Wigan ranks 9th 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 4,400 in Wigan. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 3,950.

For the shape of the rest of the Wigan workforce, the same release records 425 filled senior care worker posts, 300 filled community support and outreach posts and 225 filled registered nurse posts.

Reported median pay in Wigan was £12.34 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 Wigan only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Wigan earn a median of £33,669 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Wigan at £26,000, £7,669 below it.