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

• displays products on stall or barrow
• calls out or otherwise attracts attention to goods on offer
• sells goods at fixed price or by bargaining with customer
• accepts payment and may wrap goods
• cleans up site on completion of each day’s trading

Also called

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

What it pays

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

Classified alongside this

Collector salespersons and credit agents · Debt, rent and other cash collectors · Roundspersons and van salespersons · Sales related occupations n.e.c. · Visual merchandisers and related occupations