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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.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£11,458
£23,645
£45,962

New workers start around £11,458. Normal pay is £23,645 per year.
Highly experienced workers can earn up to £45,962.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 9,569 vacancies for this type of job

2.00%

Projected job growth over the next 8 years

Related courses

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

What they do most days?

  • Provides feedback about displays to managers and designers.

  • Prepares an area for new display, constructs or assembles displays from a variety of materials, and dismantles existing displays and returns merchandise to relevant departments.

  • Implements plans from display designers or display managers or develops ideas and plans for merchandise display or window dressing.

  • Consults with advertising and sales staff and advises retailers on the optimal display of a product and of any promotions.

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.

  • Visual Merchandising

  • Merchandising

  • Selling Techniques

  • Point Of Sale

  • Product Knowledge

  • Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

  • Marketing

  • Product Layout

  • Planogram

  • Brand Identity

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.

  • Sales

  • Communication

  • Detail Oriented

  • Customer Service

  • Management

  • Planning

  • Time Management

  • Organizational Skills

  • Prioritization

  • Self-Motivation

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.

Routes to this career

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Design for Performance

Rose Bruford College

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Sidcup · 09/2025

Tariff points: 64/64

Fashion

Nottingham College

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Nottingham · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 48/48

Marketing

Kingston University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · London · 15/09/2025

Tariff points: 120/136

Marketing with Foundation Year

Sheffield Hallam University

BA (Hons) · 5 Years · Sandwich including foundation year · Sheffield · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 64/64

Marketing Management

University College Birmingham

FdA · 2 Years · Full-time · Birmingham · 15/09/2025

Tariff points: 32/56

Fashion Design

University of Portsmouth

BA (Hons) · 4 Years · Sandwich · Portsmouth · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 112/120

Textiles

Coleg Sir Gar

Cert · 1 Year · Full-time · Carmarthen · 09/2025

Tariff points: 96/96

Marketing

Anglia Ruskin University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Peterborough · 15/09/2025

Tariff points: 96/96

Marketing

Bath Spa University

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Bath · 22/09/2025

Tariff points: 104/128

Fashion Textiles

London Metropolitan University

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · London · 09/2025

Tariff points: 112/112

Fashion (with Foundation Year)

Teesside University

BA (Hons) · 4 Years · Full-time including foundation year · Middlesbrough · 15/09/2025

Tariff points: 32/88

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