Residential care home worker salary in the UK (2026)
What does a Residential care home worker earn?
What employers advertise across the UK.
£27,600 per year, median
the midpoint of 792 advertised salaries from 186 employers, collected 26 Aug 2026 – 21 Oct 2026
about £2,300 a month
- Low
- £24,900
- Median
- £27,600
- Average
- £35,800
- High
- £65,000
Median
Average
Low £24,900
High £65,000
Half of the adverts fall between £25,800 and £41,100. “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
- 792 advertised salaries, from 186 different employers.
- Collected between 26 Aug 2026 and 21 Oct 2026.
- Stated in the advert as an hourly rate (513), a yearly figure (279). 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 Residential care home worker jobs
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Relief Extra Care Support Worker
Full-time
Relief Extra Care Support Worker
Full-time
Home Carer / Home Care Support Worker
14–18 £/hrPart-time
Registered Care Home Manager
Full-time
Care & Support Worker
from 13 £/hrFull-time
Female Extra Care Support Worker
from 14 £/hrFull-time
Female Extra Care Support Worker
Part-time
Extra Care Support Worker - Barfields Court
from 13 £/hrPart-time
Registered Care Home Manager
from 70k £/yrFull-time
Registered Care Home Manager
from 80k £/yrFull-time
Extra Care Support Worker - Waking Nights, Barfields Court
from 13 £/hrFull-time
Care Home Manager
Full-time
Registered Care Home Manager
Full-time
Care & Support Worker (nights) - Young People @ Footprints
Part-time
Care Support Worker - Taunton (Female only)
Apprenticeship
Care Support Worker - Brook Street
from 13 £/hrApprenticeship
Care Support Worker - Shepton Mallet
from 14 £/hrPart-time
Care Support Worker - Exeter (Driver)
from 13 £/hrFull-time
Care Support Worker - Shepton Mallet
from 14 £/hrPart-time
Registered Care Home Manager
from 40k £/yrFull-time