Adult social worker jobs in Darlington

Skills for Care recorded 75 filled social worker posts in Darlington in 2024/25, out of 75 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 2.1% of the 3,600 filled adult social care posts in Darlington. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Darlington, only 32.9% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Darlington ranks 8th of the 12 North East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North East sits at 100 filled social worker posts, against 75 in Darlington. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Darlington workforce, the same release records 10 filled occupational therapist posts, 100 filled community support and outreach posts and 50 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Darlington was £19.71 an hour for the social worker role and about £37,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Darlington 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 Darlington: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Darlington earn a median of £33,840 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Darlington at £25,200, £8,640 below it.