Top Companies Hiring for Sales Jobs in London (Oct 2026)

You want a sales job in London and you need to know who is actually hiring, not who claims to be. As of 14 October 2026, the JobRise live jobs feed (jobrise.io) shows 188 open sales listings in London. 139 went up in the last 30 days, and 80 in the last 7 days alone. The market is moving. Check the listings yourself and watch the counts shift.

Who is hiring right now#

Here is the ranked list of companies with the most open sales listings in this slice. Some of these names are recruiters or staffing firms rather than the final employer, so read the listing carefully before you spend an evening on a cover letter. These are open listings, not a market survey, and they will change.

• Stripe: 16 open listings
• Figma: 11
• Anthropic: 9
• Okta: 7
• Kurt Geiger: 6
• Intercom: 6
• Carta: 6
• Datadog: 6
• Ramp: 6
• Red Bull: 5

Ten companies carry most of the visible openings. The rest of the 188 sit with employers holding a handful of live roles each.

What the job titles tell you#

Titles are the only firm evidence you have before you apply, so read them word by word. Stripe lists "Account Executive, Funded Startups" and "Account Executive Product - Fraud & Risk", which are separate product lines and you should speak to each one differently. Segment matters.

Intercom runs three live roles: "Account Executive, MidMarket - German Speaking", "Account Executive, Senior MidMarket (French)" and "Account Executive, Small Business (French Speaking)". Language skills are doing real work in that hiring, and if you have French or German you are competing in a much thinner field.

Kurt Geiger's open role is "8hr Part Time Sales Assistant, Kurt Geiger, Harrods Mens- Temporary", which is store-based, named to a specific location and temporary. That one is about availability and travel, not pipeline. Red Bull is hiring across three graduate programmes: "On Premise Sales & Trade Marketing Graduate - 18 Month Program", "Sales & Trade Marketing Graduate - 18 Month Program" and "Partnerships & Event Marketing Graduate - 18 Month Program". Eighteen months is the commitment.

Other live titles include "Sales Associate" at Giorgio Armani, "Senior Enterprise Customer Success Manager - UK" at Fastly, "Graduate Sales Account Manager" at SeedLegals, "Graduate Account Executive - London - German or Dutch Speaker" at Suade and "Junior Watch Sales Specialist" at The Collecting Group.

How London compares with the UK#

London has 188 open sales listings and across the whole United Kingdom there are 360, so London holds the majority of the visible sales openings in this feed. For wider context, London carries 1,009 open listings across all job categories on JobRise right now. The country totals sit in the JobRise Hiring Report: the UK and you can check there how the picture moves.

One blunt note. 188 is a snapshot, not a promise. Applying outside London means a thinner pool with fewer named employers, but also fewer people chasing the same role.

How to target each type of employer#

Large tech vendors like Stripe, Figma, Okta, Datadog, Intercom, Anthropic, Carta and Ramp hire in defined segments, and the fastest way to look wrong is to send them a generic sales CV. Mirror the segment in the title back at them, and if the role says MidMarket, talk about deal sizes and sales cycles you have actually run in that band. If it says "Funded Startups", show speed and founder-level selling.

Consumer and retail brands like Kurt Geiger and Giorgio Armani want customer-facing reliability. Availability, location and product interest matter more than your CRM notes. Say which store you can reach and the hours you can cover.

Graduate programmes at Red Bull, SeedLegals and Suade screen for trajectory, because they are investing 18 months or more in you and they need to see evidence you will stick. Lead with any sales-adjacent work, part-time jobs, societies or competitions. Numbers help.

Recruiters and staffing firms in the list move fast and submit in batches, so a sloppy CV gets passed over in seconds while a clean one gets sent to three clients the same afternoon. Send a clean CV with no graphics, list your right-to-work status plainly, and ask which end client the role is for before you invest hours in a cover letter.

A rewritten bullet, before and after#

Weak: "Responsible for selling products to customers in a busy store."

Stronger: "Hit weekly sales targets in a high-footfall West London store, averaging 40+ customer conversations per shift and upselling accessories on 3 out of 5 transactions."

The second version gives a location, a volume and a rate. Harder to argue with.

Referral and outreach scripts#

Use these as written, then adjust the details to the role.

Referral ask to a connection at the company: "Hi Sam, hope you are well. I have applied for the Account Executive, Funded Startups role at Stripe and I would value a referral if you are comfortable giving one. I have spent the last two years selling into early-stage tech companies in London and I can send you my CV and a short summary of my numbers. No worries at all if not."

Cold message to a hiring manager: "Hello Priya, I saw the Account Executive, MidMarket - German Speaking role at Intercom. I sold into DACH mid-market accounts last year and closed 11 new logos. Happy to send a two-line summary of my pipeline and how I work. Would you be open to a short call this week?"

Follow-up after applying: "Hi, following up on my application for the Sales Associate role at Giorgio Armani. I am available for weekend and late shifts and I can start within two weeks. Happy to come in for a trial shift if that helps."

A 7-step plan#

1. Pull the current London sales listings and save the 10 companies above as a target list. Check the London sales hub weekly because counts move.
2. Split your targets into tech vendors, consumer brands, graduate programmes and recruiters. Write one CV version for each group.
3. Rewrite your top three bullets with numbers, locations and timeframes. Drop anything a hiring manager cannot picture.
4. Apply to the newest listings first. 80 roles went live in the last 7 days, and early applications get read more often.
5. Find one connection at each of your top five companies and send the referral script. One warm referral beats ten cold applications.
6. Message the hiring manager within 24 hours of applying with the outreach script. Keep it under 60 words.
7. Track everything in a simple sheet: company, role, date applied, contact, next step. Use the free company insights tool to prepare before each call so you can ask sharper questions.

FAQ#

How current are these numbers?

All figures come from the JobRise live jobs feed on 14 October 2026. They count open listings in that slice on that date and will change as roles are filled or reposted.

Do any of these sales roles in London list a salary?

No listing in this slice shows a salary. When a salary does appear elsewhere, treat it as a range that varies by employer and verify the current figure on the official job posting before you negotiate.

Are all these companies the direct employer?

No. Some names in the list are recruiters or staffing firms. Check the listing text for the end client, and ask the recruiter directly before you invest time in a tailored application.

Are there entry-level sales jobs in this snapshot?

Yes, 6 of the 188 listings look entry-level by title. Examples include the Red Bull graduate programmes, "Graduate Sales Account Manager" at SeedLegals, "Graduate Account Executive - London - German or Dutch Speaker" at Suade and "Junior Watch Sales Specialist" at The Collecting Group.

Should I apply to roles requiring a language I only speak at B2 level?

Apply if you can hold a sales conversation in that language, because the listing asks for it and you will be tested. If you cannot run a discovery call in it, aim for the English-only roles first and keep working on the language in parallel.