Registered Nurse jobs in the Gulf

How many Registered Nurse jobs are open, who is hiring, what employers ask for and what adverts offer. Counted daily from employer career pages and job boards, with similar titles grouped together.

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Jobs open now

70

UAE 59, Saudi Arabia 8, Bahrain 1

New jobs, last 30 days

96

Hiring trend vs the previous 30 days: too early to tell

Jobs closed, last 30 days

111

Filled, expired or taken down by the employer

Typical time a job stays open

Measuring now

We started timing closings on 2 October 2026. The figure appears once enough jobs have closed.

New and closed jobs, week by week

Complete weeks only, for employers we were already tracking at the start, so a new source never looks like a hiring spike.

3 Aug
10 Aug
17 Aug
24 Aug
31 Aug
7 Sept
14 Sept
21 Sept
28 Sept
5 Oct
12 Oct
19 Oct
New jobs Closed jobs

Most active employers

By new jobs posted in the last 30 days.

  1. 1NMC Healthcare30
  2. 2Mediclinic Middle East19
  3. 3Fakeeh Care Group8
  4. 4M426
  5. 5SSBZHospital3
  6. 6Dr Sulaiman AlHabib Medical Centers2
  7. 7SKIN 111 Medical & Aesthetics Clinic2
  8. 8Apparel Group2
  9. 9Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Group2
  10. 10Kings College Hospital Dubai2

Where the new jobs are

New jobs in the last 30 days, by city.

Skills employers ask for

The skills named most often in new adverts over the last 30 days. General soft skills are left out.

  1. 1Medication administration37
  2. 2Patient education27
  3. 3Vital signs monitoring27
  4. 4Infection control20
  5. 5Wound care management17
  6. 6Basic Life Support (BLS)16
  7. 7Clinical documentation16
  8. 8ACLS14
  9. 9Nursing14
  10. 10BLS13
  11. 11Neonatal Resuscitation13
  12. 12Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)13
  13. 13Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)12
  14. 14Basic Arabic language skills12
  15. 15Wound care12

Rising fastest

Like-for-like change vs the previous 30 days, on at least 30 adverts.

Not enough history yet to call a rise.

What employers require

From the requirements in 70 open adverts. The typical ask is the median.

33%

ask for a degree

2

years of experience, typical ask

0%

ask for a driving licence

0%

require Arabic

FieldYears askedDegreeCredentials asked for most
Healthcare & Medical233%BLS, Nursing licence (RN), DHA licence

What open jobs pay: our estimate

Most Gulf adverts don't state a salary, so these bands use our own estimate for each open job (the employer's figure when they give one). Individual estimates can be well off, so read this as the shape of the market, not a salary guide.

Open jobs by estimated monthly pay

  • Under AED 5k0%
  • AED 5k to 10k24%
  • AED 10k to 20k74%
  • AED 20k to 35k1%
  • AED 35k and above0%

Estimate. 70 of 70 open jobs have a pay figure.

Adverts that state the pay

4%

Of jobs open now, the share where the employer published a salary. This one is a count, not an estimate.

Who the jobs are for

New jobs open to entry-level and junior candidates

36%

Last 30 days. The 30 days before: 3% (up 33 points).

New jobs reserved for GCC nationals

6%

Adverts that say the role is for Emirati, Saudi or other GCC nationals only. Last 30 days.

  • Healthcare & Medical6%

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How we count

  • Jobs open now are live listings on JobXDubai: collected daily from employer career pages and job boards, checked for dead links, with duplicates removed.
  • A new job is a listing we first saw within 14 days of its posting date, so an employer's backlog of old adverts never counts as fresh hiring.
  • Trends compare like with like: only employers we were already tracking in that country before the period began. When we add a new source, its jobs count as open jobs but not as growth.
  • We only show a percentage change on a big enough base: at least 300 new jobs in the earlier period (30 for a single field or skill, 15 for an employer). Below that, small numbers swing too much to mean anything.
  • Pay bands are estimates. Most adverts don't state pay, so we estimate it per job. The share of adverts stating pay is an exact count.
  • The Hiring Index counts new postings each week from a fixed group of employers we already tracked before its base period, against the average of its four base weeks (= 100). A field gets its own index once it averaged at least 30 new jobs a week in the base period.
  • Requirements come from the requirements written in each open advert (years, degrees, licences, credentials, languages). Spellings of the same credential are merged.
  • Advertised pay uses only salaries the employer published, never our estimates, and only where at least 30 adverts in a field state one.
  • CV figures come from CVs uploaded to JobXDubai, including free CV checks, stored as anonymous statistics: the skills a CV mentions and a likely field. We never keep or publish the CVs themselves.
  • Time open runs from posting to closing. It leaves out jobs from feeds where we retire adverts ourselves after a fixed age, which would otherwise make every field look the same.
  • Tracking began UAE: July 2026, Oman: July 2026, Saudi Arabia: July 2026. Updated 28 October 2026.

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