Adult social worker jobs in Gloucestershire

Skills for Care recorded 100 filled social worker posts in Gloucestershire in 2024/25, out of 125 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 0.5% of the 20,500 filled adult social care posts in Gloucestershire. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Gloucestershire, only 25.3% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Gloucestershire ranks 9th of the 14 South West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South West sits at 137.5 filled social worker posts, against 100 in Gloucestershire. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Gloucestershire workforce, the same release records 25 filled occupational therapist posts, 325 filled community support and outreach posts and 350 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Gloucestershire was £18.77 an hour for the social worker role and about £36,100 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Gloucestershire earn a median of £37,598 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Gloucestershire at £25,700, £11,898 below it.