Software Developer

Job Title: Software Developer
Hours: 36 hours (full time)
Job Status: Fixed Term contract until 31 March 2027
Location: Home based with the expectation of travel within area and nationally where required
Salary: £52,575.15 per annum
Closing Date: 23.59pm on Wednesday 25 March 2026
Interview Date(s): 14 April 2026

Skills for Care the strategic workforce development and planning body for adult social care in England. We work with employers, Government and partners to ensure social care has the right people, skills and support required to deliver the highest quality care and support now and in the future.

Find out more by looking at (url removed).

Internally we call this role Digital Specialist (Developer). The above job title is being used for external advertising purposes.

Skills for Care has an exciting opportunity for a Software Developer to join our Workforce Intelligence team.

The successful candidate will join our multi-disciplinary team working on our Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS) service. The service is a GDS assessed service, now in live running. The team follows Agile user-centered methods, working in 2-week sprints to develop and deploy as often as possible.

You will be part of a team that provides a valued service to the care sector and to the Department of Health and Social Care.

You should have experience with the most used technologies in our tech stack:

• Angular and Typescript for the front end
• SASS and the GDS design system for styling
• NodeJS with an Express API for the backend
• Postgres database
• Terraform for Infrastructure as Code
• Working in an Agile environment

Our code is open source and we use Git and GitHub for source control.

Shortlisted candidates will be asked to complete an online technical test as the first stage in the recruitment process, followed by a virtual (Teams) interview if successful at the first stage.

If you are interested in this role, please access the full job description for further information and we look forward to receiving your application.

At Skills for Care, we are committed to creating a culture of Belonging, where all of our People are able to contribute to their full potential. All our People are expected to contribute towards the achievement of our aspirations for equality, equity, diversity and inclusion. To find out more please check our website (https://(url removed)/About-us/Equality-diversity-and-inclusion/Equality-diversity-and-inclusion.aspx).

At Skills for Care, we want our People to be representative of the society we support, this includes all equality characteristics such as age, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief. This lived experience from a diverse group of people helps us with all the work that we do and ultimately supports the social care sector to provide the best quality care. We encourage applications from, but not limited to, people from minoritised ethnic backgrounds, people who identify as LGBTQ+ and people with disabilities.

Candidates will always be selected based on experience and potential.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Information about reasonable adjustments
We want all applicants to be able to fully participate in our selection processes. We welcome requests for adjustments to our recruitment and selection processes from applicants with disabilities, impairments, or health conditions, and will always consider support available in the recruitment process.
Please contact our People Team via email ((url removed)) to discuss any adjustments that you may need.