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.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£ 8,089
£ 20,807
£ 38,491

Available jobs

In the past year there were 7,263 vacancies for this type of job

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Cleans up site on completion of each day.

  • Accepts payment and may wrap goods.

  • Sells goods at fixed price or by bargaining with customer.

  • Calls out or otherwise attracts attention to goods on offer.

  • Displays products on stall or barrow.

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Food Safety And Sanitation

  • Marketing

  • Operational Excellence

  • Carpentry

  • Plastering

  • Espresso Beverages

  • Painting

  • Plumbing

  • Coffee Making

  • Finance

Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Communications

  • Customer Service

  • Sales

  • Willingness To Learn

  • Proactivity

  • Positivity

  • Management

  • Operations

  • Coaching

  • Interpersonal Communications

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.