Support worker jobs in Manchester

Skills for Care recorded 600 filled community support and outreach posts in Manchester in 2024/25, out of 650 community support and outreach posts in total. Around 50 of those community support and outreach posts in Manchester were vacant when the data was collected. That is a 6.5% vacancy rate for the community support and outreach role in Manchester.

The community support and outreach role is 5% of the 12,000 filled adult social care posts in Manchester. Turnover in the community support and outreach role in Manchester ran at 9%. New starters were 15.1% of community support and outreach posts in Manchester over the year.

On filled community support and outreach posts, Manchester ranks 3rd of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 250 filled community support and outreach posts, against 600 in Manchester. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 225.

For the shape of the rest of the Manchester workforce, the same release records 6,000 filled care worker posts, 500 filled senior care worker posts and 325 filled social worker posts.

Reported median pay in Manchester was £13.29 an hour for the community support and outreach role and about £25,600 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.

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.