Senior care assistant jobs in Surrey

Skills for Care recorded 2,000 filled senior care worker posts in Surrey in 2024/25, out of 2,100 senior care worker posts in total. Around 75 of those senior care worker posts in Surrey were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 4% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Surrey.

The senior care worker role is 5.9% of the 34,000 filled adult social care posts in Surrey. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Surrey ran at 10%. New starters were 11.6% of senior care worker posts in Surrey over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Surrey ranks 3rd 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 2,000 in Surrey. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Surrey workforce, the same release records 17,500 filled care worker posts, 325 filled deputy manager posts and 600 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Surrey was £13.55 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £26,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Surrey only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Surrey earn a median of £42,500 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Surrey at £26,700, £15,800 below it.