Support worker jobs in Luton

Skills for Care recorded 175 filled community support and outreach posts in Luton in 2024/25, out of 175 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 10 of those community support and outreach posts in Luton were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 10% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Luton.

The community support and outreach role is 3.6% of the 4,800 filled adult social care posts in Luton. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Luton ran at 8.3%. New starters were 15.5% of community support and outreach posts in Luton over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Luton ranks 7th of the 11 East of England areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the East of England sits at 175 filled community support and outreach posts, against 175 in Luton. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Luton workforce, the same release records 2,500 filled care worker posts, 225 filled senior care worker posts and 50 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Luton was £12.47 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £24,000 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Luton only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Luton earn a median of £36,936 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Luton at £25,100, £11,836 below it.