DMW Job Orders for Nurses 2026: 65,383 Workers Listed

The nurse orders come from 452 agencies and cover 65 destinations. The table shows the 10 destinations with the most workers listed.

DMW job orders with "nurse" in the position title by destination, 2026, source: https://dmw.gov.ph/inquiry/approved-job-orders

Two patterns stand out. Saudi Arabia has by far the most orders (1,047) and the most agencies with nurse orders (262). But Singapore, Germany and the United Kingdom list more workers per order. In Singapore, 21 agencies hold orders that list 14,038 workers. A single order there can list hundreds.

The first five destinations hold 54,295 of the 65,383 workers listed, or 83%. Bahrain (48 orders, 614 workers) and Austria (36 orders, 585 workers) come right after the table.

You can see every order for a country on our pages for Singapore, Germany, Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom.

The list does not say which license a post needs. It only shows the position title, and the titles vary. These are the eight most common:

Most common position titles among DMW job orders for nurses, 2026, source: https://dmw.gov.ph/inquiry/approved-job-orders

Only "nurse registered" names the license outright, with 402 orders and 13,705 workers listed. Some titles in our count are clearly not registered nurse posts. "Nurse assistant", "aide nurse" and "technician nurse" are included only because the title contains the word "nurse".

Each country also writes titles its own way. Germany's orders are mostly "nurse" (451 orders, 9,159 workers) and "nurse assistant" (64 orders, 1,901 workers). Singapore's are split between "nurse registered" (79 orders, 5,186 workers), "nurse enrolled" (105 orders, 4,999 workers) and "nurse staff" (35 orders, 1,855 workers). Read the exact title on each order. For the Philippine license itself, see our guide to the Nursing Board Exam application.

Care work is a different list. Titles with "caregiver" or "care worker" have 545 orders and 5,775 workers listed, from 209 agencies for 36 destinations. Japan has the most, with 254 orders and 3,047 workers. None of these are in the nurse count.

In the last 12 months of our copy, from October 2025 to September 2026, DMW approved between 58 and 91 nurse orders a month.

By year of approval, the nurse orders in our copy are:

• 2023: 221 orders, 5,878 workers listed
• 2024: 994 orders, 27,712 workers listed
• 2025: 1,265 orders, 23,563 workers listed
• 2026 up to 2 October: 653 orders, 8,230 workers listed

Do not read this as growth or decline. As our earlier post explains, the public list holds mostly recent orders, so older years look smaller than they were. And 2026 is not over.

Almost all nurse orders (2,914 orders, 65,148 workers) come under regular accreditation. Another 112 are "Open JO" orders with a balance of 0, and 110 are in-house orders with 235 workers listed.

How we counted. We read the public DMW approved job orders list on 2 October 2026, one search per agency name, and checked it again on 5 October 2026. We counted distinct published rows. Exact duplicate rows were removed, rows with impossible approval dates were left out, and negative balances were counted as zero. A row counts as a nurse order when its position title contains the word "nurse".

The same limits apply as in our earlier count:

• They are not open jobs. A balance may already be filled. Only the agency and DMW can confirm what is still needed.
• They are not deployments. An order is permission to recruit. It does not show how many nurses actually left.
• They do not judge agencies or countries. A high count says nothing about pay or working conditions. It is not a ranking.
• Titles are messy. The same job can carry many titles, and a few titles with "nurse" are not nurse jobs.

Use the list as a check, not as a job board. Before you pay anything or sign any paper:

1. Search the agency on the DMW list of licensed recruitment agencies. Read the license status and expiry date.
2. Search the same agency on the DMW approved job orders page. Check that the country and the position title match what you were offered.
3. If you are a registered nurse, make sure the title is a nurse post and not an assistant or aide post.
4. If the agency has no approved order for that country and position, ask it to explain, and report it to DMW if the answer is not clear.

Our guide on how to check an agency explains both searches step by step. You can also look up an agency's license status and job orders on our DMW agency search. Our pages copy the public DMW lists, so confirm on the DMW website before you act.