The Datum Report

Occupation 7125 · Sales and customer service occupations

Visual merchandisers and related occupations

Visual merchandisers develop, deliver and communicate visual concepts and strategies to promote brands, products and services in-store, in catalogues or online, and create displays of merchandise.

How people enter it

There are no formal academic entry requirements. Training is typically provided on-the-job, supplemented by short courses covering practical skills and details of the product or service being sold.

What the work involves

Also called

Display representative · Fashion stylist · Visual merchandising assistant · Window dresser

What it pays

MeasureHoursBasisPeriodValueSource
7125 : Visual merchandisers and related occupations None None 2026-03 8,700.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
7125 : Visual merchandisers and related occupations None None 2026-03 8,700.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
7125 : Visual merchandisers and related occupations None None 2026-03 9,700.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
7125 : Visual merchandisers and related occupations None None 2026-03 800.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
7125 : Visual merchandisers and related occupations None None 2026-03 1,000.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
7125 : Visual merchandisers and related occupations None None 2026-03 10,400.00 ONS, Annual Population Survey - employment by occupation (SOC 2020)
7125 : Visual merchandisers and related occupations 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)

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 7125 : Visual merchandisers and related occupations None 700.00 2026-03
East Midlands 7125 : Visual merchandisers and related occupations None withheld 2026-03
London 7125 : Visual merchandisers and related occupations None 5,200.00 2026-03
North East 7125 : Visual merchandisers and related occupations None withheld 2026-03
North West 7125 : Visual merchandisers and related occupations None 1,600.00 2026-03
Northern Ireland 7125 : Visual merchandisers and related occupations None 800.00 2026-03
Scotland 7125 : Visual merchandisers and related occupations None 1,000.00 2026-03
South East 7125 : Visual merchandisers and related occupations None withheld 2026-03
South West 7125 : Visual merchandisers and related occupations None withheld 2026-03
Wales 7125 : Visual merchandisers and related occupations None withheld 2026-03
West Midlands 7125 : Visual merchandisers and related occupations None withheld 2026-03
Yorkshire and The Humber 7125 : Visual merchandisers and related occupations None 700.00 2026-03

Common questions

Does pay for visual merchandisers and related occupations vary by region?

ONS publishes regional pay for this occupation where the survey sample supports it — 6 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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