Child care worker salary in the UK (2026)
What does a Child care worker earn?
What employers advertise across the UK.
£27,800 per year, median
the midpoint of 101 advertised salaries from 40 employers, collected 26 Aug 2026 – 20 Oct 2026
about £2,300 a month
- Low
- £24,800
- Median
- £27,800
- Average
- £27,800
- High
- £33,900
Median
Average
Low £24,800
High £33,900
Half of the adverts fall between £25,800 and £29,000. “Low” and “high” are the bottom and top tenth of what is advertised, not the single cheapest and dearest advert — one unusual posting should not decide either end.
How this figure was worked out
- 101 advertised salaries, from 40 different employers.
- Collected between 26 Aug 2026 and 20 Oct 2026.
- Stated in the advert as a yearly figure (55), an hourly rate (46). Hourly and monthly figures are converted to a year at 1,950 hours, so they can be compared with the ones stated annually.
- Figures are rounded to the nearest hundred. Adverts offering part-time only are left out, because a part-time figure is not comparable with a full-time one.
These are advertised salaries, read from the text of employers’ own job adverts. They are not verified with the employer, they are not what anyone is necessarily paid, and they are not a pay survey.
Open Child care worker jobs
Residential Child Care Worker
from 27k £/yrFull-time
Residential Child Care Worker (Sessional/Casual)
from 13 £/hrFull-time
Day Care Assistant
from 14 £/hr
Day Care Assistant
from 14 £/hrFull-time
Residential Child Care Worker
from 29k £/yrFull-time
Day Care Assistant
from 13 £/hr
Residential Child Care Worker - FLK14719
35–39k £/yr
Day Care Assistant
from 13 £/hrPart-time
Day Care Assistant
from 13 £/hr
Day Care Assistant
Day Care Assistant
Full-time
Day Care Assistant
Day Care Assistant
Full-time
Residential Child Care Worker
31–38k £/yr
Residential Child Care Worker
32–35k £/yr
Residential Child Care Worker
Nursery Manager - Primary School
Full-time
Residential Child Care Worker (Sessional/Casual)
from 13 £/hrFull-time
Residential Child Care Worker
from 29k £/yrFull-time
Residential Child Care Worker
from 29k £/yr