After gaining his surveying qualification, Hanson started his career in 1999 at Christie's working as a student intern in the European Ceramics and Glass Department.
[1][2][3][4] Subsequently, he worked for antique houses in Cheshire and Staffordshire before founding Hansons Auctioneers and Valuers in Etwall, Derbyshire in August 2005.
[14][15] Since 2002 Hanson has appeared on BBC television programme Bargain Hunt where he acts as an adviser to one of two teams of contestants who buy and sell antiques and attempt to gain a profit.
In November 2018 he appeared as an expert on a celebrity edition of Bargain Hunt in which stars of the BBC series Casualty made up the teams and tried to raise money for Children in Need.
It was produced by father and son team Grahame and Jack Corbyn and released digitally on independent record label Saga Entertainment.