The Datum Report

Occupation 7123 · Sales and customer service occupations

Roundspersons and van salespersons

Roundspersons and van salespersons deliver and sell food, drink and other goods by calling on householders or by selling from a mobile shop or van and call on households to collect and receive payment for laundered or similarly serviced articles.

How people enter it

No academic qualifications are required but candidates should hold a clean driving licence. Off and on-the-job training is provided.

What the work involves

Also called

Dairyman (retail trade: delivery round) · Ice-cream salesman · Milkman (milk retailing) · Roundsman · Van salesman

What it pays

MeasureHoursBasisPeriodValueSource
7123 : Roundspersons and van salespersons None None 2026-03 8,500.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
7123 : Roundspersons and van salespersons None None 2026-03 9,000.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
7123 : Roundspersons and van salespersons None None 2026-03 9,300.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
7123 : Roundspersons and van salespersons None None 2026-03 1,400.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
7123 : Roundspersons and van salespersons None None 2026-03 — ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
Not published: Estimate is less than 500
7123 : Roundspersons and van salespersons None None 2026-03 10,700.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
7123 : Roundspersons and van salespersons None None 2026-03 — ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
Not published: Estimate is less than 500

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 7123 : Roundspersons and van salespersons None 2,000.00 2026-03
East Midlands 7123 : Roundspersons and van salespersons None 600.00 2026-03
London 7123 : Roundspersons and van salespersons None 1,100.00 2026-03
North East 7123 : Roundspersons and van salespersons None withheld 2026-03
North West 7123 : Roundspersons and van salespersons None 1,300.00 2026-03
Northern Ireland 7123 : Roundspersons and van salespersons None 1,400.00 2026-03
Scotland 7123 : Roundspersons and van salespersons None withheld 2026-03
South East 7123 : Roundspersons and van salespersons None withheld 2026-03
South West 7123 : Roundspersons and van salespersons None 1,600.00 2026-03
Wales 7123 : Roundspersons and van salespersons None withheld 2026-03
West Midlands 7123 : Roundspersons and van salespersons None 1,000.00 2026-03
Yorkshire and The Humber 7123 : Roundspersons and van salespersons None 800.00 2026-03

Common questions

Does pay for roundspersons and van salespersons vary by region?

ONS publishes regional pay for this occupation where the survey sample supports it — 8 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.

Classified alongside this

Collector salespersons and credit agents · Debt, rent and other cash collectors · Market and street traders and assistants · Sales related occupations n.e.c. · Visual merchandisers and related occupations