Find bar work near you
Casual, weekend and evening bar shifts, agreed direct with the venue - £13–£16 an hour plus tips, no agency taking a cut. Pick your city:
Bar work near me - how it works
When you search "bar work near me", venues and bars near your location that are actually hiring show up - but job boards take days to process applications and agencies take 15-20% of your pay. CrewPool works differently: you add your name to the list once, set your location and how far you'll travel, and bars near you search the list and ring you direct when they need cover. Bar work near you comes to you rather than you applying and waiting. Rates are agreed on the call - typically £13-£16 an hour plus tips - and you keep all of it. No agency in the middle.
Bartending jobs near me
Bartending jobs near you are different from general bar work. They go to people who can mix drinks, work a service under pressure, and handle a licence if the venue needs one. The venues searching for bartenders near them are hotel bars, cocktail bars, event bars at corporate functions, and festival premium bars. They search by skill - on CrewPool they find you directly when they need someone for a shift.
What bartending jobs near you look like on CrewPool: hotel bar event shifts (one-off functions, weddings, conferences - the bar manager searches for cocktail-skilled staff free on the date and rings direct); cocktail bar cover (Friday and Saturday nights, peak event season, sick-day cover at a bar running a cocktail service); festival premium bars (most major UK festivals run at least one premium bar area with higher rates than the standard bar, staffed by the contractor from their list); and corporate event bars (company parties and awards evenings where the brief says bartenders, not just bar staff).
Pay is higher than standard bar work. The national minimum wage floor is £12.71/hr (ages 21+, from April 2026), but experienced bartenders working cocktail and event shifts earn £14-18/hr. Tick cocktail on your CrewPool profile and set your travel range - bartending jobs near you come to you when a venue searches for cocktail bar staff in your area. A personal licence (APLH in England/Wales, SCPLH in Scotland) adds £1-3/hr on shifts requiring licence supervision.
What are bartending jobs near me on CrewPool?
Pub jobs near me
Pub jobs near you cover cover shifts, weekend work and bank holiday fills at local pubs, neighbourhood bars and chain venues within your travel range. The difference from event bar work is regularity - pub jobs near you tend to be recurring at the same venue (Friday nights, Sunday lunches, match days) rather than one-off functions. On CrewPool you show up in searches for both from one profile.
What pub jobs near you look like on CrewPool: cover shifts (a regular staff member is sick, the landlord needs someone for Saturday - they search the list for bar staff free on the date within a few miles and ring direct); matchday work (pubs and sports bars near football grounds, rugby clubs and racecourses take on extra bar staff for fixtures and race days - tick sports hospitality if this suits you); and cover for peak nights (Valentine's Day, New Year's Eve, bank holiday Sundays and local events that pull extra footfall). Rates: £12.71-£14/hr for standard pub shifts, tips on top, agreed direct with no agency cut.
How do I find pub jobs near me?
Hiring bar staff?
Venues browse the same list free, filter by distance and availability, and ring people direct. A cheaper, faster alternative to a bar staff agency. Pick your city:
Same crew, all year round
CrewPool started with festival and event crew. Bar work is the same people between events - reliable, vetted, local. Tick bar skills and you show up for both. See festival and event work. Through November and December the same crew does party-season bar work at corporate Christmas parties, winter events and venue surge hiring. Christmas temp jobs and seasonal event work.
What bar shifts on CrewPool look like
Casual bar shifts make up most of what venues post: Friday and Saturday nights, bank holiday weekends, and last-minute cover when someone calls in sick. You set your own rate, the venue rings you direct, you agree it on the call, and you show up. No agency sitting in the middle taking 15-20% of what the venue is paying.
Weekend work is the bread and butter, but event bar shifts are where it gets interesting: corporate parties, private dining, music events, festival bars. If you tick event bar on your profile, venues running one-off events can find you alongside the casual pub and bar world. Same list, same direct contact, no separate sign-up.
Cocktail skills, barista, and a personal licence all sit as separate skills you can tick. Venues filter by them when they search. The more skills you add, the more searches you show up in - and the higher rate you can set when a venue rings.
Bar shifts in September - freshers week and venue season
September is the highest-demand month for casual bar shifts outside of the Christmas period. Freshers weeks at UK universities (most run late September) flood city-centre venues and student union bars with extra bar shift demand. Leeds, Nottingham, Bristol, Manchester, Sheffield, Birmingham, Newcastle, Edinburgh and every other major university city sees venues taking on extra bar staff for the concentrated late September period. Companies searching for bar staff in freshers-week cities search CrewPool from mid-September - getting on the list now means you are visible when the calls go out.
The indoor bar and venue season restarts in September. Gig venues, corporate event bars and hospitality businesses that wound down for summer ramp back up from September, creating steady weekly bar shift demand through to the Christmas party season in December. Festival bar shifts also continue through September at autumn festivals, outdoor events and harvest season events. The same bar staff who work summer festival bars are often first-call for autumn venue work through the same contractors.
Add your name to CrewPool free, tick bar staff and your city, and venues near you with September bar shifts will ring you directly. Bar shifts in Leeds · Manchester · Bristol · Nottingham · London
Christmas bar work - when to sign up
Christmas bar work is one of the most predictable seasonal income windows in the UK - the party season, Christmas markets and Hogmanay create a concentrated run from late November through to January that experienced bar staff plan around every year. Sign up in September and you get the call when contractors start building their Christmas rosters in October; sign up in November and the best shifts are already filled.
What Christmas bar work looks like on CrewPool: Christmas market bar units (Edinburgh, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Bath, Winchester, Chester and 20+ other cities run large markets November to December - all require staffed bar and mulled wine units); corporate party season bar staff (company Christmas parties at hotels, venues and event spaces run October through December with concentrated demand in the last two weeks of November and first two weeks of December); light trail and grotto bar work (Longleat Festival of Light, Chester Zoo Lanterns, Kew Gardens Glow, Chatsworth Christmas - all run pop-up catering and bar areas staffed by local event crew); and Hogmanay bar work (Edinburgh Princes Street ticketed event, Glasgow Style Mile, city centre extended licence bars across Scotland on December 31st).
Christmas bar work rates follow the same direct-pay model as all CrewPool work: £13-16/hr for Christmas market and party bar shifts, agreed directly with the contractor, no agency cut. On-event supervisor and crew chief rates run higher. Add your name free and tick bar staff - contractors filling Christmas bar shifts across the UK contact you directly when they are building their crew. See all Christmas temp jobs on CrewPool