Support worker jobs in Birmingham

Skills for Care recorded 1,100 filled community support and outreach posts in Birmingham in 2024/25, out of 1,100 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 25 of those community support and outreach posts in Birmingham were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 3.2% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Birmingham.

The community support and outreach role is 3.3% of the 33,000 filled adult social care posts in Birmingham. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Birmingham ran at 17.8%. New starters were 18.1% of community support and outreach posts in Birmingham over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Birmingham ranks 1st of the 14 West Midlands areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the West Midlands sits at 212.5 filled community support and outreach posts, against 1,100 in Birmingham. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Birmingham workforce, the same release records 18,500 filled care worker posts, 1,500 filled senior care worker posts and 425 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Birmingham was £12.88 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £24,800 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Birmingham only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Birmingham earn a median of £38,556 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Birmingham at £24,700, £13,856 below it.