Adult social worker jobs in Surrey

Skills for Care recorded 400 filled social worker posts in Surrey in 2024/25, out of 425 social worker posts in total.

The social worker role is 1.2% of the 34,000 filled adult social care posts in Surrey. The publisher gives no turnover rate for this role in Surrey, only 23.9% across all care roles in the area.

On filled social worker posts, Surrey ranks 2nd 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 400 in Surrey. Across the 151 published England areas the middle is 100.

For the shape of the rest of the Surrey workforce, the same release records 100 filled occupational therapist posts, 800 filled community support and outreach posts and 600 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Surrey was £23.32 an hour for the social worker role and about £44,900 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Surrey 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 Surrey: the count is too small to release. Those figures are absent here rather than replaced with an average from elsewhere.

Full-time workers in Surrey earn a median of £42,500 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Surrey at £26,700, £15,800 below it.