The Datum Report

Occupation 7129 · Sales and customer service occupations

Sales related occupations n.e.c.

Half of full-time sales related occupations n.e.c. in the UK earn more than £31,480 a year, and half earn less.

Job holders in this unit group perform a variety of sales occupations not elsewhere classified in minor group 712: Sales Related Occupations.

How people enter it

There are no formal academic entry requirements. Training is typically received on-the-job, supplemented by short courses covering practical skills and details of the product or service being sold. NVQs/SVQs in sales are available at levels 2 and 3.

What the work involves

• assesses characteristics of goods/services being sold and decides on main selling points
• advises clients and agents on insurance related problems, seeks new outlets for business and quotes premiums, bonus rates, tax concessions, etc.
• obtains orders for advertising, financial, catering, printing and transportation services
• organises parties in private households to sell clothing, fashion accessories, giftware and other goods
• provides demonstrations of a product within retail stores, exhibitions and trade fairs to promote interest amongst potential customers
• negotiates agreements for the passage of supply lines over or under land/property and the siting of supporting structures and other items

Also called

Demonstrator · Hire controller · Insurance salesman · Promoter (wholesale, retail trade) · Sales representative (retail trade)

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for sales related occupations n.e.c., full-time employees, 2023 to 2025. Each point is that year's ASHE April snapshot as published — revisions are not backfilled into earlier years, and a year ONS withheld is a gap rather than a joined line.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Year-on-year change

The change from each year to the next, in per cent, computed from the figures in the chart above — so the two cannot disagree.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for full-time employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 10 of 11 regions are published: ONS withholds a cell where the survey sample cannot support it, and those are shown as gaps rather than dropped — an absent region is not a region without the work in it.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Period 2025. Table

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 · Market and street traders and assistants · Roundspersons and van salespersons · Visual merchandisers and related occupations