The Datum Report

Occupation 4133 · Administrative and secretarial occupations

Stock control clerks and assistants

Half of full-time stock control clerks and assistants in the UK earn more than £29,991 a year, and half earn less.

Stock control clerks and assistants receive orders from customers, prepare requisitions or despatch documents for ordered goods, maintain and update records, files and other correspondence in relation to the storage and despatch of goods.

How people enter it

There are no minimum academic requirements, although entrants usually possess GCSEs/S grades. Training is usually provided on-the-job. NVQs/ SVQs in relevant areas are available at levels 2 and 3.

What the work involves

• receives and checks in deliveries from suppliers or completed stock to be despatched to customers
• allocates appropriate storage space in accordance with stock control and space utilisation policies
• receives enquiries and orders from customers, and quotes prices, discounts, delivery dates and other relevant information
• prepares requisitions, consignments and other despatch documents
• checks requisitions against stock records and forwards to issuing department
• adjusts stock records as orders are received, reports on damaged stock and prepares requisitions to replenish damaged stock

Also called

Auditor (stock control) · Despatch clerk · Material controller · Stock controller · Stores administrator · Supply chain coordinator

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for stock control clerks and assistants, 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. 11 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

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