Adult social worker jobs in Barking and Dagenham

Skills for Care recorded 100 filled social worker posts in Barking and Dagenham in 2024/25, out of 100 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.5% of the 6,500 filled adult social care posts in Barking and Dagenham. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Barking and Dagenham, only 10.3% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Barking and Dagenham ranks 15th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 100 filled social worker posts, against 100 in Barking and Dagenham. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Barking and Dagenham workforce, the same release records 125 filled community support and outreach posts and 175 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Barking and Dagenham was £24.26 an hour for the social worker role and about £46,700 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Barking and Dagenham only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Skills for Care withholds a vacancy rate, a turnover rate for the social worker role in Barking and Dagenham: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Barking and Dagenham earn a median of £39,599 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Barking and Dagenham at £25,200, £14,399 below it.