Forklift operator jobs in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole

Forklift work is counted inside warehousing and storage, which comes to 900 employee jobs in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, from 186,000 employee jobs across the area.

That count covers whole sites rather than truck types, so counterbalance on the bays, reach in the racking and VNA in the narrow aisles are all inside it, together with the picking most operators also do. Freight, warehousing and courier work together make up 0.96% of employment in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole.

Median full-time pay in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole was £37,241 a year in 2025 across all occupations combined. Forklift work is not published separately at this level, so treat that as area context and read the rate on the advert.

UK Business Counts recorded 45 warehousing and storage sites in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at the March 2025 reference date, 20 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 30 of them, 66.7%, employ under ten, well below the usual share. Large sites use the full range of truck types, so a ticket beyond counterbalance is worth more here.

Of the warehousing and storage employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 150 are part time, 15.8% of the split. The middle across the South West is 16.3%, so Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole sits level with it, 8th of 14 areas on this measure. That is a full-time shift pattern with part-time hours around the edges of it.

Two further counts round out the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole picture: 800 employee jobs in freight transport by road, and 80 employee jobs in postal and courier activities.

Measured on employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole ranks 10th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 2,955, against 1,780 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 2,975. Next to Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole in that order sit North Somerset at 2,540 and Dorset at 1,180.

On the separate business register count of warehousing and storage sites, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole ranks 8th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 45, against 45 in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 35. Next to Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole in that order sit South Gloucestershire at 60 and North Somerset at 45.

None of these counts is a vacancy figure. They describe 900 jobs across 45 warehousing sites as the surveys found them in Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, and the live list above is what is open now.