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Care home manager jobs in County Durham

Adult social care in County Durham employs people in 175 filled registered manager posts, on the most recent Skills for Care count. Below are the published figures for the area, and every advert on this site for the role right now.

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Published figures for County Durham

What the official data says about County Durham

Skills for Care recorded 175 filled registered manager posts in County Durham in 2024/25, out of 225 registered manager posts in total. Around 25 of those registered manager posts in County Durham were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 13.8% vacancy rate for the registered manager role in County Durham.

The registered manager role is 1.2% of the 14,500 filled adult social care posts in County Durham. Turnover in the registered manager role in County Durham ran at 21.8%. New starters were 23.4% of registered manager posts in County Durham over the year.

On filled registered manager posts, County Durham ranks 1st of the 12 North East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North East sits at 75 filled registered manager posts, against 175 in County Durham. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 125.

For the shape of the rest of the County Durham workforce, the same release records 50 filled deputy manager posts, 375 filled registered nurse posts and 750 filled senior care worker posts.

Reported median pay in County Durham was £21.18 an hour for the registered manager role and about £40,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in County Durham only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in County Durham earn a median of £32,945 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in County Durham at £25,100, £7,845 below it.

Registered manager, filled posts: 175
Registered manager, median full-time annual pay: £40,700
All adult social care roles, filled posts: 14,500
Registered manager, posts in total: 225
Registered manager, vacant posts: 25
Registered manager, vacancy rate: 13.8%
Registered manager, turnover rate: 21.8%
Registered manager, starters in the last 12 months: 23.4%
Registered manager, median hourly pay: £21.18

The registered manager role

A registered manager is legally responsible for a regulated service. CQC registers you personally, and the rating the service carries is attached to how you run it, not only to the provider above you.

The job is staffing, occupancy, budget, safeguarding, complaints, audits and the quality of care people actually receive, usually in that order on the day and in the reverse order when it matters.

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Care home manager jobs in County Durham: common questions

How many registered manager jobs are there in County Durham?

Skills for Care recorded 175 filled registered manager posts in County Durham in 2024/25, with around 25 vacant. That is the size of the workforce, not a count of adverts. The live list on this page shows what is currently open in County Durham.

What does a registered manager earn in County Durham?

Median reported pay in County Durham was £21.18 an hour, or about £40,700 a year full time, from local authority and independent sector employers. Each advert states its own rate, and that is the figure that counts.

Do I need experience to apply for care home manager jobs in County Durham?

Registration with CQC as the registered manager. Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management for Adult Care, or working towards it. Several years in adult social care, including supervising a team. Each advert in County Durham sets out what that employer asks for.

Where these figures come from

Adult social care workforce figures: Skills for Care, Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set, local authority area data 2024-25. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Dataset page
Road freight, courier and warehousing job counts: ONS Business Register and Employment Survey 2024, accessed via NOMIS. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Dataset page
Counts of haulage, warehousing and courier workplaces: ONS UK Business Counts 2025, local units by industry and employment size band, taken from the Inter Departmental Business Register and accessed via NOMIS. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Dataset page
Local pay figures: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings 2025, workplace analysis, accessed via NOMIS. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Dataset page

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Figures are republished as the publisher released them for County Durham. Where a figure is blank, the publisher withheld it to protect a small sample. Nothing on this page is estimated, modelled or filled in from a national average.