Senior care assistant jobs in Wiltshire

Skills for Care recorded 900 filled senior care worker posts in Wiltshire in 2024/25, out of 900 senior care worker posts in total. Around 25 of those senior care worker posts in Wiltshire were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 3.7% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Wiltshire.

The senior care worker role is 6.4% of the 14,000 filled adult social care posts in Wiltshire. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Wiltshire ran at 20.6%. New starters were 10.1% of senior care worker posts in Wiltshire over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Wiltshire ranks 5th of the 14 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 725 filled senior care worker posts, against 900 in Wiltshire. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Wiltshire workforce, the same release records 8,100 filled care worker posts, 75 filled deputy manager posts and 275 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Wiltshire was £13.94 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £26,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Wiltshire only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Wiltshire earn a median of £36,370 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Wiltshire at £26,100, £10,270 below it.