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Festival crew & event jobs in London

Paid festival crew and event work across London and the South East - Field Day, All Points East and corporate marquees across the home counties. Add your name once and get rung direct when crew's needed near you.

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Festival crew and event work in London

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Festival crew and event staff jobs in London - autumn 2026

London's autumn events circuit opens from September through December across some of the UK's busiest venues. The O2 Arena in Greenwich (capacity 20,000, one of Europe's most active arenas) runs major touring productions throughout autumn and needs bar staff, stewards and event crew for every show. Alexandra Palace in Muswell Hill (N22, capacity 10,000+) runs its own autumn concert programme through the season. The Roundhouse in Camden (NW1, capacity around 3,300) takes its autumn touring season from September onwards, with event crew needed for load-in, on-event and load-out across each run of shows.

London's freshers circuit opens in late September and runs through October. Imperial College SU (South Kensington), King's College Student Union (The Strand), UCL Union (Bloomsbury) and Queen Mary Students' Union (Mile End) all recruit bar staff and event stewards for freshers events. Bar contractors supplying these venues use CrewPool to fill rosters quickly when they need confirmed-available crew at short notice.

South and south-east London's autumn events circuit adds further crew call-ups: Brockwell Park in Lambeth (SE24) hosts park events into autumn; the Gala Festival and Peckham Rye outdoor events circuit runs into September; O2 Academy Brixton (SW9, capacity 4,921) and Electric Brixton (SW2) are key parts of the London event crew circuit from September through December, both recruiting event crew for touring shows and one-off events across the autumn season.

Festivals near London

London and London & the South East run a busy event calendar - Notting Hill Carnival (August), BST Hyde Park (June), All Points East (August) and DnB Allstars Festival (September) and more, all hiring crew through the season. Find work at any of them:

Notting Hill CarnivalBST Hyde ParkAll Points EastGala FestivalDnB Allstars FestivalField DayFeastyFest

Bar work in London

Between events, the same crew picks up casual and weekend bar work in London - £13–£16 an hour plus tips, agreed direct with the venue. Hiring instead? Hire bar staff in London.

Jobs at All Points East

All Points East at Victoria Park in east London is the biggest annual summer festival near central London, running over the August bank holiday weekend with capacity around 50,000 per day. Crew roles at All Points East include bar staff, event stewards, gate crew, build and break crew, site crew and catering crew. Build crew typically start 2-3 weeks before gates open; on-event crew arrive for the bank holiday weekend itself, with shifts running from around 8am to late evening across Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Pay for All Points East crew follows London festival rates: £100-£140 per day for bar crew and stewards, £120-£200 for build and break crew, £110-£160 for stagehands. Production contractors and bar operators working All Points East recruit crew from the CrewPool list in the 2-4 weeks before the August bank holiday - add your name once and get contacted direct when they are building their teams. See the dedicated All Points East jobs and crew page for full role details.

The August bank holiday is the peak recruitment window for bar contractors building their All Points East teams. APE draws from the same London event crew pool as BST Hyde Park (June) and Notting Hill Carnival (late August) - all three events compete for the same available crew in a compressed summer window. That means crew who are flexible across June to August bank holiday tend to pick up multiple bookings. Bar crew who hold a personal licence get prioritised by bar contractors for All Points East bar roles; festival bar experience is enough for most other positions. Add your name to CrewPool free, set your travel range to cover east London, and tick bar crew, steward, build crew or site crew depending on what you can do.

Festival crew in London

London runs one of the UK's busiest festival crew seasons. Major events hiring festival crew include BST Hyde Park (June), All Points East (August), Notting Hill Carnival (August) and Field Day - each needing festival crew across a range of roles: build crew putting up stages and structures, bar crew running festival bars, stewards managing crowds and entry points, site crew handling logistics and waste, and stagehands working backstage. Festival crew hiring for build-side roles typically opens 4-8 weeks before each event; on-event festival crew bookings follow as schedules firm up, usually 2-4 weeks out.

Pay for festival crew in London varies by role. General site festival crew earns £100-£150 per day; bar festival crew and stewards both earn £100-£140 per day; stagehands earn £110-£160 per day. Specialist festival crew - lighting techs, riggers and production crew - earn £150-£280+ per day depending on the call. Festival crew chiefs and site managers command £180-£300+ per day. All pay is agreed direct between festival crew and the company, with no agency cut taken out of your rate.

Build crew are usually needed 2-4 weeks before an event; on-event crew arrive 1-2 days before doors open. London's festival season peaks May to September, covering the run from spring corporate events through to the autumn marquee circuit. Corporate marquee and private event crew work runs year-round in London, so there is rarely a dead month for experienced crew. Christmas and winter brings christmas temp jobs at Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park, the Southbank Christmas Market and corporate party season at London venues. Add yourself to CrewPool free and companies working London festivals will contact you direct - no fees, no commissions. See the dedicated festival crew jobs in London page for the general crew role, or find festival crew work in Brighton, Bristol, Manchester and Leeds.

Festival crew work in London

Festival crew work in London peaks from May to September, with the biggest festival crew call-ups coming from All Points East at Victoria Park (August), BST Hyde Park (June and July), Notting Hill Carnival (August) and Field Day at Crystal Palace Park. Festival crew roles across London events include build crew (putting up stages, fencing and power structures 2-4 weeks before gates open), bar crew (running festival bars across the event weekend), event stewards (managing crowd flow, gates and campsites), site crew (logistics, waste and campsite management) and stagehands (working backstage at stages and production areas). Festival crew hiring in London is concentrated in the hands of the production contractors who supply the big events - getting on the CrewPool list means they find you directly when they need festival crew near London, without needing to advertise or go through an agency.

Pay for festival crew in London follows standard UK event rates: £100-£150 per day for general site festival crew and bar festival crew, £110-£160 per day for stagehands, £150-£280+ per day for specialist festival crew (lighting, rigging, production). Festival crew chiefs and site managers earn £180-£300+ per day. All rates are agreed direct between festival crew and the company - no agency takes a cut on CrewPool. Festival crew who stay on the list, keep availability current and tick a broad range of skills tend to pick up festival crew work across London's full May-September season rather than only one or two events.

Festival staffing in London

Festival staffing companies working London events need two types of people: festival staffing who join the build before gates open (build crew, staging crew, fencing and power) and festival staffing who work the event itself (bar staff, stewards, catering crew, litter and recycling pickers). Festival staffing for London events is arranged through the production contractors who manage crew supply for the major festivals. The lead time varies: festival staffing for build roles typically gets locked in 4-8 weeks before the event; festival staffing for on-event roles follows 2-4 weeks out as headcounts firm up. Adding your name to CrewPool and ticking the festival staffing roles you can cover means contractors building their London event teams find you directly - no agency in the middle.

Festival staffing rates in London range from £100-£140 per day for stewarding and bar festival staffing roles to £120-£220 per day for build festival staffing crew and £150-£300+ per day for specialist festival staffing positions (staging, lighting, rigging, production management). Festival staffing across the corporate marquee circuit in the home counties pays broadly in line with festival rates and runs year-round, filling the gaps between the major London summer festivals. CrewPool is the only festival staffing directory where crew list themselves free and companies contact them direct - so festival staffing rates stay closer to what crew actually earn, with no agency commission built into the day rate.

Event crew jobs in London

Event crew jobs in London run across a year-round circuit. The summer festival season (May-September) is the peak: festival event crew jobs at BST Hyde Park, All Points East, Notting Hill Carnival and Field Day are supplemented by a dense marquee and estate event circuit across the home counties. Event crew jobs at the O2 Arena, Wembley Arena, Alexandra Palace and Roundhouse run year-round for touring productions, boxing nights and large concerts. The corporate events circuit - awards ceremonies, gala dinners, trade shows at ExCeL London and Olympia - generates event crew jobs across all seasons, peaking in May-June and October-December.

Event crew jobs in London pay £100-£300+ a day for day-rate roles and £13-£16 per hour for venue shifts. The range of event crew jobs London offers is broader than most UK cities: specialist event crew jobs (riggers, lighting techs, staging crew) are in high demand from the touring industry year-round, while general event crew jobs (bar, stewards, site crew) follow the festival and marquee calendar. Add your name to CrewPool free, tick the event crew jobs you can do, and event companies across London and the home counties find you directly when they need event crew near London.

Event crew jobs in London - autumn and winter 2026-27 season

London's year-round venue circuit generates event crew jobs across all seasons. The O2 Arena in Greenwich (20,000 capacity, one of Europe's most active arenas) runs weekly touring shows through October, November and December with bar staff, hospitality crew and stewards needed for each date - catering at the O2 is run by Levy Restaurants, who supply the bar and hospitality crew. Alexandra Palace in Wood Green (N22, 10,500 indoor capacity, 14,000 in the Theatre) has a packed autumn calendar: Palace Pumpkins festival in October, Winter Skate running November through January, Alexandra Palace Beer Festival, Christmas markets and a touring concert programme through the season - event crew hires run across all of these. Wembley Stadium (90,000 capacity) hosts NFL London in November, FA Cup rounds from December through May and League Cup fixtures; hospitality crew at Wembley operate via Delaware North. Event crew jobs wembley provides through the football and events season are a consistent autumn and winter source of work for London-based crew. The Roundhouse in Camden (NW1, 3,000 capacity) takes touring productions year-round and recruits bar crew and stewards for each run of shows.

Printworks London in Canada Water (capacity 6,000) reopened in 2024 and runs underground club nights and events year-round, recruiting bar staff and security crew from the London event crew pool. Tobacco Dock in Wapping (E1W) runs private events and corporate Christmas parties from November through January, with event crew needed across load-in, on-event and load-out. London rates for autumn and winter event crew work reflect the capital's higher cost base: bar staff earn £12.71–£15per hour (ages 21+) (above the national event average), stewards earn £110-£140 per day, build crew earn £140-£180 per day with London weighting. SIA door supervisor licence adds £20-30 per day to stewarding and security roles. Sign up on CrewPool free to be matched to London venue shifts and event crew jobs as they are posted through the autumn and winter season.

Festival jobs London - the 2027 season starts now

London's 2027 festival season is one of the UK's biggest and applications open well in advance. BST Hyde Park (British Summer Time, annual June-July, Hyde Park, 65,000 capacity per day) is one of the largest single-festival crew operations in the UK - bar staff, build crew and stewards needed across the full run; applications for June slots typically open in January. All Points East at Victoria Park (May bank holiday, 50,000 capacity per day) is covered in its own section above - see the dedicated All Points East jobs page for roles and timing. Wireless Festival at Finsbury Park (July, 50,000 capacity) needs stage crew, bar staff and stewards across its three-day run - add bar crew and steward skills to your CrewPool profile to be found when Wireless contractors are building their teams.

Notting Hill Carnival at the August bank holiday draws from the same crew pool: 2 million-plus visitors across the two-day event, 600-plus stewards needed, plus safety volunteers and food and drink stall crew. Festival jobs across London's full 2027 season - BST Hyde Park, All Points East, Notting Hill Carnival, Wireless Festival and the summer corporate marquee circuit - run May through August in sequence. London has the UK's densest event-crew schedule year-round. Sign up now to be matched to London shifts as they are posted.

Hiring festival staff in London - london festival staff, direct

Need festival staff london-wide or for a single event? Whether you need build crew for BST Hyde Park, stewards for a corporate launch at the O2, or bar crew for a seasonal party, it works direct on CrewPool: post the job free, we text the confirmed-available crew nearest your site. London festival staff are available direct - no agency markup - at /hire/festival-crew-in-london/. Festival staff London hirers find the fastest fill times on CrewPool, with most roles filled within hours of posting. All Points East, BST Hyde Park, Notting Hill Carnival and corporate marquees across the home counties are the main sources of festival staff work near London. No festival staffing agency, no markup on wages. Day rates agreed direct: bar and stewarding festival staff run £100-£140 per day, build festival staff £120-£200 per day, specialist festival staff £150-£280 per day. Hire festival staff in London →

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Common questions

What festival crew work is there in London?
London hosts major festival events hiring festival crew across the season: BST Hyde Park (June), All Points East (August), Notting Hill Carnival (August) and Field Day. Festival crew roles include build crew, bar crew, stewards, site crew and stagehands. Pay for festival crew ranges from £100-£140 per day for bar festival crew and stewards, £100-£150 for general site festival crew, £110-£160 for stagehands, £150-£280+ for specialist festival crew and £180-£300+ for festival crew chiefs. Build festival crew are typically needed 2-4 weeks before events; on-event festival crew arrive 1-2 days before.
How do I find festival crew work in London?
Add your name to CrewPool free - takes 2 minutes. Set your travel range, tick the festival crew roles you can cover (build crew, bar crew, steward, stagehand, site crew) and companies working London festivals will contact you direct. No agency, no cut, no joining fee.
What festival jobs are there in London?
Everything from bar staff and stewards to marquee crew, stagehands, lighting techs and drivers - across London & the South East, working Field Day, All Points East and corporate marquees across the home counties.
How much does event work pay in London?
Most day work pays £100–£300+, with specialist and crew-chief roles to £300+. Agreed direct, no agency cut.
How do I start?
Add your name to the list free, set your travel range, tick what you can do. Companies search and ring you direct.
What arena and corporate event crew jobs are there in London?
Event crew jobs in London cover festival crew, build and break crew, bar crew, stewards, stagehands and site crew. The biggest festival event crew jobs in London are at BST Hyde Park (June), All Points East (August) and Notting Hill Carnival (August). Year-round event crew jobs run at the O2 Arena, Wembley Arena and Alexandra Palace, plus the corporate events circuit at ExCeL London and Olympia. Festival crew jobs in London pay £100-£150 per day for general roles, £110-£160 for stagehands and £150-£300+ for specialist event crew. Add your name to CrewPool free and companies with event crew jobs near London contact you direct.
What festival staffing work is available in London?
Festival staffing work in London covers bar staff, stewards, build and break crew, catering crew and site crew. The main festival staffing events in London are BST Hyde Park (June), All Points East (August), Notting Hill Carnival (August) and Field Day. Festival staffing in London pays £100-£280+ a day depending on the role - bar and steward festival staffing roles pay £100-£140 a day, specialist festival staffing crew earn £150-£280+. Add your name to CrewPool free and festival staffing companies contact you direct, no agency cut.
What festival staff work is there in London?
Festival staff work in London runs May to September: BST Hyde Park (June), All Points East (August), Notting Hill Carnival (August) and Field Day at Crystal Palace Park. Festival staff roles include bar staff, stewards, site crew, stagehands and build crew, paying £100-£300+ a day. Add your name to CrewPool free and production contractors working London festivals contact you directly when they need festival staff near London.
What festival crew and event staff jobs are there in London in autumn 2026?
London's autumn 2026 events circuit runs from September through December. The O2 Arena, Alexandra Palace, Roundhouse, and the Brixton Academy all recruit event crew and festival staff for their autumn touring seasons. University freshers events across Imperial, KCL, UCL and QMUL also open bar work and event steward roles from late September. Sign up on CrewPool to be matched to London event crew and festival staff jobs.
How do I find festival staff jobs in London?
Sign up on CrewPool free - takes 2 minutes. Set your travel range to cover London, tick the roles you can do (bar staff, stewards, build crew, site crew, stagehands) and event companies across BST Hyde Park, All Points East, Notting Hill Carnival, the O2 Arena, Alexandra Palace and Wembley Stadium will contact you direct when they need festival staff near London. No agency, no cut, no fee.
What festival staff jobs are in London for the 2027 season?
London's 2027 festival season covers BST Hyde Park (June-July, 65,000 capacity per day), All Points East at Victoria Park (May bank holiday, 50,000 cap), Wireless Festival at Finsbury Park (July, 50,000 cap) and Notting Hill Carnival (August bank holiday, 600+ stewards needed). Plus event crew jobs at the O2 Arena, Alexandra Palace and Wembley Stadium year-round. Sign up on CrewPool free and get matched to London shifts as they are posted.
How do companies hire festival staff in London?
Post your festival staff requirement free on CrewPool - name the event, date, location and roles needed. We text the confirmed-available festival staff nearest your London site and you ring them direct and agree the rate. No agency markup. London festival staff rates: bar staff and stewards £100-£140 per day, build crew £120-£200 per day, specialist crew £150-£280 per day. Hire festival staff in London direct.
What does it cost to hire festival staff in London?
London festival staff rates agreed direct on CrewPool: bar staff £100-£140 per day (£12.71–£15per hour (ages 21+) for venue shifts), stewards £110-£140 per day, build crew £140-£180 per day, specialist crew £150-£280 per day, SIA door supervisors add £20-30 per day. No agency markup - the rate you agree is the rate the crew receives. Hire festival staff in London.