Working as a nurse in the United Kingdom
What official sources say about working as a nurse in the United Kingdom: what the occupation group earns and how foreign qualifications are recognised.
In the United Kingdom, the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals", which includes nurses, earns ≈ 3,697 EUR/month (gross, 2025). Nurse is a regulated profession in the United Kingdom. Foreign qualifications go through: Apply under the NMC international route for the exact nurse or midwife register. It begins with eligibility/qualification evaluation; the NMC may require CBT and OSCE competence tests before the registration application.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals"
- ≈ 3,697 EUR/month (gross, 2025)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- Apply under the NMC international route for the exact nurse or midwife register. It begins with eligibility/qualification evaluation; the NMC may require CBT and OSCE competence tests before the registration application.
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Technicians and associate professionals" in the United Kingdom: ≈ 3,697 EUR/month (gross, 2025), from ILO. An occupation group is wider than one job title: it is the pay of everyone the group holds, not of nurses alone.
Regulation and recognition
Nurse is a regulated profession in the United Kingdom.
- Recognition route
- Apply under the NMC international route for the exact nurse or midwife register. It begins with eligibility/qualification evaluation; the NMC may require CBT and OSCE competence tests before the registration application. General care nurse. General system of recognition - primary application.
- Recognition authority
- Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) for the registered nurse, midwife and nursing-associate titles named by the UK government list; check the exact register and nation-specific role.
- Language requirement
- For the NMC overseas-registration route, accepted evidence includes IELTS Academic (at least 7 in reading, listening and speaking and 6.5 in writing) or the NMC OET standard; the NMC also publishes specified alternatives/exemptions. Nurse, midwife and nursing-associate pathways must be checked separately.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Nurse in the United Kingdom: salary and recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 02ee4795c2572ae244ef7629576b3c96]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/nurse/united-kingdom/ Retrieved 2026-10-16. Compilation license: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/BibTeX citation
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