Adult social worker jobs in Manchester

Skills for Care recorded 325 filled social worker posts in Manchester in 2024/25, out of 400 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 2.7% of the 12,000 filled adult social care posts in Manchester. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Manchester, only 16.5% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Manchester ranks 2nd of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 125 filled social worker posts, against 325 in Manchester. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Manchester workforce, the same release records 25 filled occupational therapist posts, 600 filled community support and outreach posts and 175 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Manchester was £22.55 an hour for the social worker role and about £43,400 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Manchester 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 Manchester: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Manchester earn a median of £40,479 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Manchester at £26,500, £13,979 below it.