How much does an Urdu tutor cost in the UK?

Private Urdu tutors in the UK typically charge between £25 and £50 per hour, with GCSE-focused tutoring and native-speaker tutors both available at competitive rates given a healthy supply of qualified tutors in areas with established Urdu-speaking communities.

As a rough guide:

• GCSE Urdu: £25–£42/hr
• Conversational and heritage-language Urdu for children and adults: £22–£40/hr
• A-Level Urdu: £30–£50/hr

GCSE Urdu is offered by AQA and assesses listening, speaking, reading and writing, similar in structure to other GCSE languages. Many GCSE Urdu students are heritage speakers with strong conversational fluency from home but who need specific support with the formal written and exam-technique side of the qualification, which is a different tutoring need to students learning Urdu from scratch.

Native Urdu speakers, and particularly those who are also qualified teachers or who know the specific AQA GCSE Urdu specification, tend to be most in demand. Because Urdu tutoring demand is often geographically concentrated in specific UK cities, online tutoring is worth considering if a strong local match isn't available. On TutorLab, Urdu tutors publish their own rates and whether they focus on GCSE, heritage learners or complete beginners on their profiles.