Working as a physician in the United Kingdom
What official sources say about working as a physician in the United Kingdom: what the occupation group earns and how foreign qualifications are recognised.
In the United Kingdom, the occupation group "Professionals", which includes physicians, earns ≈ 4,518 EUR/month (gross, 2025). Physician is a regulated profession in the United Kingdom. Foreign qualifications go through: General system of recognition - primary application.
- Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals"
- ≈ 4,518 EUR/month (gross, 2025)
- Regulation
- Regulated
- Recognition route
- General system of recognition - primary application
Pay
Earnings of the occupation group "Professionals" in the United Kingdom: ≈ 4,518 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 physicians alone.
Regulation and recognition
Physician is a regulated profession in the United Kingdom.
- Recognition route
- General system of recognition - primary application. Doctor in Basic Medicine. Doctor in basic and specialised medicine both listed in Annex V. Doctor in Basic medicine and General medical practice. For the cited international full-registration route, an overseas graduate who meets eligibility completes PLAB 1 and PLAB 2, internship and GMC Online evidence checks; GMC has other routes for other qualifications/experience.
- Recognition authority
- General Medical Council (GMC) for medical-practitioner registration in the UK.
- Language requirement
- GMC requires international doctors applying for registration with a licence to practise to demonstrate adequate English. Its current guide accepts route-specific evidence including IELTS, OET, qualification, employer references and other evidence; a single CEFR level does not describe every route.
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ImmigrationDB. (2026, October 16). Physician in the United Kingdom: salary and recognition [ImmigrationDB compilation; version 707c3c8b9606b45716bcd3c12689c58d]. ImmigrationDB. https://immigrationdb.com/move-as/physician/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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