Sales jobs in London: learn to sell and get hired
How to land a sales job in London with no experience: where the openings are, which job boards to use and how to practise before the interview. Ventaka is 100% online, so you train from London whenever you like (United Kingdom).
Ventaka is on the App Store and Google Play: 3 days free, cancel anytime.
Sales in London
London has the largest share of UK sales jobs: software, fintech, media, advertising and recruitment. Many SDR and business development roles are hybrid, with a few days a week in the office.
Many SDR and inside sales roles are hybrid or remote, so you can also apply from London to companies based elsewhere.
Sales jobs in London: what drives the local economy
London is Europe's biggest business city: banks, insurers, recruiters, media agencies and hundreds of tech scale-ups hire business development reps, account managers and recruitment consultants.
Most sales hiring in London happens around the City and Canary Wharf, Shoreditch and Old Street, King's Cross and Soho.
Sales roles you will find in London
The roles that hire most in London, what you would sell and the objection you will hear most (the one you rehearse first with Ventaka's AI customer):
recruitment consultant
What you sell: candidates and hiring services to companies
The objection you will hear: "We already use three agencies"
SDR at a tech scale-up
What you sell: software demos to UK and European companies
The objection you will hear: "Just send it over by email"
media sales executive
What you sell: advertising across print, digital and outdoor
The objection you will hear: "We've spent this quarter's budget"
When London hires most
January and September are the busiest hiring months; August and the weeks around Christmas are quiet.
Your 4-week plan to land a sales job in London
- Week 1 · The basics: prospecting and closing lessons, then the objection you will hear most as recruitment consultant: "We already use three agencies".
- Week 2 · Your résumé: aim it at recruitment consultant and SDR at a tech scale-up roles, with your Ventaka certificate and its verification code.
- Week 3 · Applications: sales job alerts for London reach you in the app every day; start with employers around the City and Canary Wharf and Shoreditch and Old Street.
- Week 4 · Interviews: rehearse the "sell me this" with software demos to UK and European companies, and practise this objection: "We've spent this quarter's budget".
Where to find sales jobs in London
- LinkedIn Jobs. Most SDR and business development roles in tech and B2B are posted here.
- Indeed UK. The largest volume of sales executive and telesales openings across the country.
- Reed. A long-standing UK job board with many sales and recruitment roles.
- Totaljobs. Good for field sales, account management and graduate schemes.
- CV-Library. Strong outside London, with many regional B2B sales roles.
How Ventaka gets you ready
- Short game-style lessons: from zero to selling, 10 minutes a day
- Written role-plays with AI customers who push back with real objections
- The «sell me this pen» interview test with Cal, who scores you at the end
- A sales CV and a scam-offer detector
- A verifiable certificate to show recruiters