Victorious Festival jobs & crew work

Victorious Festival jobs - how to get one

Victorious Festival (Hampshire (Portsmouth), South East) takes a small army to build, run and strike. Crew are hired by the festival and by the contractors who supply the bars, stages, marquees, fencing, power and toilets - usually in the weeks before August. Pick the work you do:

Add your name to CrewPool, say you'll travel to Hampshire (Portsmouth), and you go on the list companies search when they're staffing Victorious Festival. Free, two minutes, and you keep every penny of your rate.

Going as a punter, not to work? Dates, lineup and everything else about Victorious Festival is on Fezzy, our festival guide.

Victorious Festival jobs - what's on offer

Victorious Festival jobs split across two phases, both recruiting in the weeks before the August bank holiday weekend. Build phase Victorious Festival jobs (contracted from late July): stage infrastructure crew for the Castle Stage and Common Stage builds, barrier and fencing teams, marquee erectors, power and electrical installation teams, and general site crew working the full Southsea Common footprint. On-event Victorious Festival jobs (working across the bank holiday weekend): bar staff for the multiple bar areas across the site, event stewards managing gates and crowd flow at the Castle Stage and Common Stage front-of-house, catering crew for the food and drink areas, site hands and litter crew for the campsite-free outdoor site, and production runners and logistics crew. Strike phase Victorious Festival jobs (immediately after the final day) are usually the same build crew breaking down what they put up.

Victorious Festival jobs pay in line with South Coast festival rates. Bar staff earn £100-£140 per day for the on-event days. Event stewards earn £100-£130 per day. General build crew earn £120-£200 per day depending on the role and phase. Specialist crew - rigging, staging, electrical - earn £150-£280+ per day. Crew chiefs and site supervisors working Victorious Festival jobs earn £180-£300+ per day. All rates are agreed direct between the worker and the production contractor - no agency takes a cut on CrewPool. Victorious Festival 2026 at Southsea wrapped at the end of August. Victorious Festival jobs for 2027 will recruit from autumn 2026 onwards - add your name to CrewPool free now so the production contractors who staff Victorious can find you when they build their 2027 crew lists.

Jobs at Victorious Festival

Victorious Festival occupies Southsea Common, the open seafront area in Portsmouth between the seafront and Southsea Castle. The site is primarily a day festival (no main camping on the Common) with multiple stages - the Castle Stage (the main stage with Southsea Castle backdrop), the Common Stage and a range of smaller tents and outdoor areas. Build crew start on site approximately 7-10 days before gates open, working stage infrastructure, barrier systems, marquees and fencing. On-event bar staff, stewards, catering crew and gate crew work the festival days. Strike crew begin the day after the final day.

Victorious is a day festival rather than a camping festival, which makes it distinctive for crew: most crew travel to and from site daily rather than staying over. Bar staff and stewards for Victorious are typically hired by the production contractors who manage bar operations and security. Build crew may have a longer site engagement across the build and break cycle. Pay follows standard South Coast festival rates: £100-£140 per day for bar and stewarding roles, £120-£200 per day for build crew, £150-£280+ per day for specialist crew chiefs and supervisors.

Victorious Festival crew jobs - roles and what they pay

Build crew victorious festival jobs (3-4 days before, typically Sunday-Wednesday before the August bank holiday weekend): stage rigging and barrier installation, power and lighting runs, site compound setup at Southsea Common. Build crew rates typically run £110-140/day. IPAF-licensed operators earn a £20-40/day premium on top of the standard rate. Portsmouth-based crew are most competitive for build - no travel cost makes local crews the first call when contractors are filling their Victorious Festival crew lists from late July.

On-event victorious festival jobs (Saturday-Monday of the bank holiday weekend): stewards (SIA door-supervised and non-SIA stewarding both available), bar staff across the 5 or more licensed bars at the seafront site, front-of-house and guest experience, VIP and hospitality crew. Event rates run £120-160/day depending on role. Bar staff specifically: event bar rates at Victorious run £13-16/hr for experienced staff. Early shift start (site opens 11am both days) means full day rates from morning.

Strike victorious festival jobs (Monday night/Tuesday after the final day): rapid de-rig is required to return the Southsea Common seafront site to public use by Wednesday. Strike crew are in demand - typically 20-30% of build-crew size. Same day rates as build, £110-140/day. Strike jobs are often filled by the same crew who built the site, so being on the CrewPool list from the start of the cycle matters.

Bar staff at Victorious Festival

Victorious has multiple bar areas across Southsea Common covering the Castle Stage front-of-house, the Common Stage bar and smaller bars at each stage and in the food and drink areas. Bar staff at Victorious work the on-event shift, serving across a busy seafront festival site. If you have bar experience in Portsmouth or the South Coast, add your name to CrewPool and set your travel range to include Southsea - contractors recruiting bar staff for Victorious search the list in the weeks before the festival.

Hiring crew for Victorious Festival?

If you're a contractor or organiser staffing Victorious Festival, CrewPool is a live list of event crew you can filter by distance from Hampshire (Portsmouth) and by availability for your exact build dates. Search the list free, then unlock the people you want and ring them direct - no agency in the middle.

Victorious Festival 2027 - sign up now

Victorious Festival 2026 at Southsea Common wrapped at the end of August. The 2027 festival will return to the same site for another bank holiday weekend. Production contractors who staffed Victorious 2026 begin building their 2027 crew lists from September onwards - the crews who made the 2026 event possible are the first people contacted when 2027 crew calls go out. Adding your name to CrewPool free now means you are on the list that Portsmouth and South Coast production contractors search when they start filling their Victorious Festival 2027 crew teams from autumn 2026 onwards. Roles for Victorious 2027 will follow the same pattern as 2026: build crew contracted 2-3 weeks before bank holiday weekend, bar staff and stewards for the event weekend itself, and strike crew in the days after. Bar staff at Victorious earn £100-140/day; stewards earn £100-130/day; build crew earn £120-200/day.

Victorious Festival jobs - the South Coast circuit

Victorious Festival jobs are part of a broader South Coast crew circuit that runs from spring through to autumn each year. Crew who work Victorious Festival jobs in Portsmouth often continue through the late summer and autumn circuit: End of the Road Festival in Dorset (early September), Shambala in Northamptonshire (late August) and indoor autumn shows at Guildhall Portsmouth and O2 Academy Southampton. Getting on the CrewPool list for Victorious Festival jobs means you are visible for the whole South Coast crew circuit, not just the August bank holiday weekend.

Victorious Festival jobs span the full South Coast from Hampshire to West Sussex. Crew who cover Victorious jobs in Portsmouth also pick up work at events in Brighton (Great Escape, Victorious South Coast circuit), Southampton (Ageas Bowl outdoor concerts, O2 Guildhall) and Bournemouth (events at BIC and the beachfront). The production contractors staffing Victorious Festival jobs often supply multiple events across this circuit - add your name to CrewPool free once and stay visible for every Victorious Festival job call and South Coast event.

Common questions

Festival work near Bournemouth

Based in Portsmouth or the South Coast? Find more festival jobs across the South Coast and Bournemouth area or sign up to be visible for all crew work in the region.

Other UK festivals