Adult social worker jobs in Isle of Wight

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

The social worker role is 1.4% of the 5,300 filled adult social care posts in Isle of Wight. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Isle of Wight, only 28.4% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Isle of Wight ranks 12th of the 19 South East areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the South East sits at 100 filled social worker posts, against 75 in Isle of Wight. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Isle of Wight workforce, the same release records 250 filled community support and outreach posts and 75 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Isle of Wight was £21.72 an hour for the social worker role and about £41,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Isle of Wight 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 Isle of Wight: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Isle of Wight earn a median of £28,543 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Isle of Wight at £25,400, £3,143 below it.