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.
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