Adult social worker jobs in Kingston upon Thames

Skills for Care recorded 50 filled social worker posts in Kingston upon Thames in 2024/25, out of 50 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.2% of the 4,300 filled adult social care posts in Kingston upon Thames. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Kingston upon Thames, only 13.7% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Kingston upon Thames ranks 30th of the 33 London areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of London sits at 100 filled social worker posts, against 50 in Kingston upon Thames. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Kingston upon Thames workforce, the same release records 100 filled community support and outreach posts and 75 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Kingston upon Thames was £23.30 an hour for the social worker role and about £44,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Kingston upon Thames 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 Kingston upon Thames: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Kingston upon Thames earn a median of £42,346 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Kingston upon Thames at £27,600, £14,746 below it.