The Datum Report

Occupation 2236 · Professional occupations

Registered children's nurses

Half of full-time registered children's nurses in the UK earn more than £41,963 a year, and half earn less.

Registered children's nurses nurses provide general or acute nursing care for children and young people with chronic or acute conditions and assist medical doctors with their tasks.

How people enter it

Entrants will need a degree or equivalent qualification in children's nursing and to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. A DBS check is also required.

What the work involves

• assists medical doctors and works with other healthcare professionals to deal with emergencies and pre-planned treatment of patients
• manages own case load
• monitors children's progress, including the interpretation of the behaviour of young children too young to communicate
• administers drugs and medicines, applies surgical dressings and gives other forms of treatment
• works with parents to explain procedures and health conditions and to help them care for children when they return home
• advises on nursing care, disease prevention, and nutrition
• plans, manages, provides and evaluates nursing care services for patients, supervises the implementation of nursing care plans

Also called

Community children's nurse · Neonatal nurse · Paediatric nurse · School nurse

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for registered children's nurses, full-time employees, 2023 to 2025. Each point is that year's ASHE April snapshot as published — revisions are not backfilled into earlier years, and a year ONS withheld is a gap rather than a joined line.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Year-on-year change

The change from each year to the next, in per cent, computed from the figures in the chart above — so the two cannot disagree.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for full-time employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 3 of 11 regions are published: ONS withholds a cell where the survey sample cannot support it, and those are shown as gaps rather than dropped — an absent region is not a region without the work in it.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Period 2025. Table

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

Common questions

Classified alongside this

Midwifery nurses · Other registered nursing professionals · Registered community nurses · Registered mental health nurses · Registered nurse practitioners · Registered specialist nurses