Screwfix

Screwfix describes itself as "the traders behind the tradespeople": it sells everything from power tools and workwear to cables and pipe fittings, mainly to trade customers, through more than 900 stores and online. Its head office is in Yeovil, Somerset. In 2025 it opened 17 new stores and filled more than 3,000 roles.

Where people work: in stores as retail assistants (no retail experience needed), retail and trade supervisors, assistant managers and branch managers; in customer service; and at head office, in teams including digital and data, commercial, finance, HR, legal, marketing, property, supply chain and technology. Screwfix runs Trade Up apprenticeships to assistant manager and branch manager, and welcomes part-time applications for store management roles.

Pay (Screwfix's adverts, October 2026): retail assistants from £13.08 an hour and supervisors from £14.08 an hour in the UK; hourly rates may include a location allowance.

What Screwfix offers (from its careers site and adverts): 28 days' annual leave including bank holidays, rising with service to 33; a 20% colleague discount; an award-winning pension with an employer contribution of up to 14%; share save schemes; a role-dependent annual bonus; enhanced life cover; free wellbeing resources and confidential counselling through the Retail Trust; a financial wellbeing app; gym discounts; a cycle to work scheme; long-service rewards; LinkedIn Learning; and Enhanced Family Leave, including paid leave for fertility treatment appointments. Screwfix is a Fostering Friendly employer.

The Screwfix Foundation, launched in 2013, has raised £10 million to repair and improve properties and community facilities for people in need across the UK.

Every Screwfix job on The Retail Appointment links straight through to Screwfix's own careers system to apply.