commercial sales representative
Commercial sales representatives represent a company in selling and providing information on goods and services to businesses and organisations.
commercial sales representative commercial sales representatives represent a company in selling and providing information on goods and services to businesses and organisations. The role shows moderate AI exposure (0.50 on a 0-1 scale) — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. The most in-demand skills for the role include consumer goods industry, characteristics of products, sales promotion techniques, product comprehension, customer relationship management.
Pay in the UK
UK: median £37,924 a year for Business sales executives (ONS ASHE 2025, full-time)
Middle half of full-time jobs: £30,244 to £52,105 a year
UK jobs are grouped differently; this is the closest UK occupation group (ONS SOC 2020 3552). ONS rates this estimate precise. 2025 provisional figures; ONS revises them a year later. Source: ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (Open Government Licence)
Pay in India (occupation group)
Average monthly earnings of salaried employees in the occupation group “Technicians and associate professionals” in India, from the Government of India's Periodic Labour Force Survey (January–December 2025). It covers everyone in this group, not only commercial sales representative, and it is not US pay converted to rupees.
Source: MoSPI (Government of India), Periodic Labour Force Survey Annual Report 2025, Table 51 — average wage/salary earnings of regular wage/salaried employees, NCO-2015 division 3. Official India data gives one average per occupation group: there are no official India figures for single careers, experience levels or cities. Read the report
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Top skills
Knowledge you'll build
- Customer and Personal Service
- Sales and Marketing
- English Language
- Administration and Management
- Mathematics
- Production and Processing
- Computers and Electronics
- Administrative
What you'd actually do
- Negotiate prices or terms of sales or service agreements.
- Prepare and submit sales contracts for orders.
- Visit establishments to evaluate needs or to promote product or service sales.
- Maintain customer records, using automated systems.
- Answer customers' questions about products, prices, availability, or credit terms.
- Quote prices, credit terms, or other bid specifications.
Tools & technology you'd use
Frequently asked questions
What does commercial sales representative do?
Commercial sales representatives represent a company in selling and providing information on goods and services to businesses and organisations.
What skills does commercial sales representative need?
The most in-demand skills for this role include consumer goods industry, characteristics of products, sales promotion techniques, product comprehension, customer relationship management, sales strategies. These are the skills O*NET identifies as most important for competent performance.
Will AI replace commercial sales representative?
Our AI-durability model gives commercial sales representative a score of 0.50 on a 0-1 scale (higher = more exposure). That places it at moderate AI exposure — some tasks are being automated but the role adapts. Learning to work with AI tools rather than against them is the path forward.