The Datum Report

Occupation 7124 · Sales and customer service occupations

Market and street traders and assistants

Market and street traders and assistants sell goods (other than refreshments) from stalls, barrows and other portable containers in streets and market places.

How people enter it

No academic qualifications are required.

What the work involves

Also called

Market assistant · Market trader · Owner (market stall) · Stall holder · Street trader

What it pays

MeasureHoursBasisPeriodValueSource
7124 : Market and street traders and assistants None None 2026-03 8,400.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
7124 : Market and street traders and assistants None None 2026-03 9,600.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
7124 : Market and street traders and assistants None None 2026-03 11,700.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
7124 : Market and street traders and assistants None None 2026-03 — ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
Not published: Estimate and confidence interval not available since the group sample size is zero or disclosive (0-2)
7124 : Market and street traders and assistants None None 2026-03 2,100.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
7124 : Market and street traders and assistants None None 2026-03 11,700.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
7124 : Market and street traders and assistants None None 2026-03 1,200.00 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 7124 : Market and street traders and assistants None withheld 2026-03
East Midlands 7124 : Market and street traders and assistants None 1,000.00 2026-03
London 7124 : Market and street traders and assistants None 2,000.00 2026-03
North East 7124 : Market and street traders and assistants None withheld 2026-03
North West 7124 : Market and street traders and assistants None 800.00 2026-03
Northern Ireland 7124 : Market and street traders and assistants None withheld 2026-03
Scotland 7124 : Market and street traders and assistants None 2,100.00 2026-03
South East 7124 : Market and street traders and assistants None 700.00 2026-03
South West 7124 : Market and street traders and assistants None 1,500.00 2026-03
Wales 7124 : Market and street traders and assistants None 1,200.00 2026-03
West Midlands 7124 : Market and street traders and assistants None 1,400.00 2026-03
Yorkshire and The Humber 7124 : Market and street traders and assistants None withheld 2026-03

Common questions

Does pay for market and street traders and assistants 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.

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