The Datum Report

Occupation 4133 · Administrative and secretarial occupations

Stock control clerks and assistants

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

Also called

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

What it pays

MeasureHoursBasisPeriodValueSource
4133 : Stock control clerks and assistants None None 2026-03 68,700.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
4133 : Stock control clerks and assistants None None 2026-03 72,500.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
4133 : Stock control clerks and assistants None None 2026-03 78,100.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
4133 : Stock control clerks and assistants None None 2026-03 1,400.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
4133 : Stock control clerks and assistants None None 2026-03 5,600.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
4133 : Stock control clerks and assistants None None 2026-03 79,500.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
4133 : Stock control clerks and assistants None None 2026-03 3,800.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)

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.

RegionMeasureHoursValuePeriod
East 4133 : Stock control clerks and assistants None 8,900.00 2026-03
East Midlands 4133 : Stock control clerks and assistants None 7,300.00 2026-03
London 4133 : Stock control clerks and assistants None 7,100.00 2026-03
North East 4133 : Stock control clerks and assistants None 2,200.00 2026-03
North West 4133 : Stock control clerks and assistants None 7,200.00 2026-03
Northern Ireland 4133 : Stock control clerks and assistants None 1,400.00 2026-03
Scotland 4133 : Stock control clerks and assistants None 5,600.00 2026-03
South East 4133 : Stock control clerks and assistants None 10,300.00 2026-03
South West 4133 : Stock control clerks and assistants None 8,800.00 2026-03
Wales 4133 : Stock control clerks and assistants None 3,800.00 2026-03
West Midlands 4133 : Stock control clerks and assistants None 8,200.00 2026-03
Yorkshire and The Humber 4133 : Stock control clerks and assistants None 8,700.00 2026-03

Common questions

Does pay for stock control clerks and assistants vary by region?

ONS publishes regional pay for this occupation where the survey sample supports it — 12 of 12 cells on this page. The rest are withheld by ONS, and are shown as withheld with the reason, rather than left out.

Where do these pay figures come from?

The Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, published by the Office for National Statistics. Figures are shown exactly as ONS publishes them — we do not adjust, model or fill them in, and every number on this page carries the series and period it came from.

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