Forklift operator jobs in Cornwall

Forklift work is counted inside warehousing and storage, which comes to 1,000 employee jobs in Cornwall, from 233,000 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 1.27% of employment in Cornwall.

Median full-time pay in Cornwall was £33,889 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 70 warehousing and storage sites in Cornwall at the March 2025 reference date, 15 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 50 of them, 71.4%, 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 Cornwall, 175 are part time, 17.9% of the split. The middle across the South West is 16.3%, so Cornwall sits above it, 5th of 14 areas on this measure. A part-time share at this level usually means twilight and weekend shifts running alongside the main rota.

Two further counts round out the Cornwall picture: 1,750 employee jobs in freight transport by road, and 205 employee jobs in postal and courier activities.

Measured on employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work, Cornwall ranks 8th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 2,955, against 2,955 in Cornwall. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 2,975. Next to Cornwall in that order sit Gloucestershire at 3,610 and North Somerset at 2,540.

On the separate business register count of warehousing and storage sites, Cornwall ranks 6th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 45, against 70 in Cornwall. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 35. Next to Cornwall in that order sit Bristol, City of at 80 and South Gloucestershire at 60.

None of these counts is a vacancy figure. They describe 1,000 jobs across 70 warehousing sites as the surveys found them in Cornwall, and the live list above is what is open now.