Senior care assistant jobs in Reading

Skills for Care recorded 200 filled senior care worker posts in Reading in 2024/25, out of 225 senior care worker posts in total. Around 10 of those senior care worker posts in Reading were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 5.8% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Reading.

The senior care worker role is 4.8% of the 4,200 filled adult social care posts in Reading. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Reading ran at 28.2%. New starters were 12.4% of senior care worker posts in Reading over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Reading ranks 17th of the 19 South East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South East sits at 350 filled senior care worker posts, against 200 in Reading. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Reading workforce, the same release records 2,400 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 100 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Reading was £12.78 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £24,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Reading only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Reading earn a median of £49,062 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Reading at £26,200, £22,862 below it.