Registered Nurse salary in East

Official occupation: 223 Nursing Professionals · Reference period April 2026 (provisional) · Data updated · Confidence 95/100

The median registered nurse in East earns £44,823 a year, within 3% of the United Kingdom figure of £44,928.

That is the 3rd-highest median among the 11 regions with a published figure.

The middle half of earners take home between £38,199 and £51,350 before tax.

The median rose 1.9% on the previous year's estimate.

Published figures

Published and derived pay figures
MeasureEastNational
Median annual pay Observed£44,823United Kingdom: £44,928
Mean annual pay Observed£44,959United Kingdom: £45,794
10th percentile Observed£31,169United Kingdom: £32,198
20th percentile Observed£36,775United Kingdom: £36,693
25th percentile Observed£38,199United Kingdom: £38,161
30th percentile Observed£39,297United Kingdom: £39,515
40th percentile Observed£41,772United Kingdom: £42,077
60th percentile Observed£47,077United Kingdom: £47,655
70th percentile Observed£49,725United Kingdom: £50,411
75th percentile Observed£51,350United Kingdom: £52,470
80th percentile Observed£53,922United Kingdom: £54,710
Jobs (thousand, indicative) Observed53
Median change vs previous year (%) Observed1.9%
Difference from United Kingdom median (£44,928) Derived−0%
Rank among 11 regions Derived3

Nearby in the ranking

  1. 1. London£51,615
  2. 2. Scotland£44,957
  3. 3. East£44,823
  4. 4. North East£44,761
  5. 5. South East£44,337

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Source, method and data quality

  • Source: Office for National Statistics, Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) 2026 provisional, Tables 14 and 15 (full-time employee jobs, place of work) (Open Government Licence v3.0). Reference period: April 2026 (provisional). Updates: Yearly (provisional each autumn, revised a year later).
  • Observed figures are copied from the published table without adjustment. Derived figures (rankings, ratios and differences) are calculated by us from those observed figures. No figure on this page is modeled or estimated.
  • ONS publishes a coefficient of variation (CV) per estimate and suppresses estimates with CV above 20%.
  • Confidence score: 95/100. Based on the published sampling error and job count. We only publish region pages scoring 60 or more that have at least 6 observed figures.
  • Place hierarchy from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Data last updated: .
  • Full method: methodology.