Forklift operator jobs in Hampshire

Forklift work is counted inside warehousing and storage, which comes to 7,000 employee jobs in Hampshire, from 616,000 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 2.02% of employment in Hampshire.

Median full-time pay in Hampshire was £39,324 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 215 warehousing and storage sites in Hampshire at the March 2025 reference date, 70 of them employing ten people or more. 145 of them, 67.4%, 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 Hampshire, 1,000 are part time, 14.3% of the split. The middle across the South East is 13%, so Hampshire sits above it, 7th of 19 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 Hampshire picture: 3,500 employee jobs in freight transport by road, and 1,925 employee jobs in postal and courier activities.

Measured on employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work, Hampshire ranks 2nd of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 2,400, against 12,425 in Hampshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 2,975. Next to Hampshire in that order sit Kent at 21,400 and Milton Keynes at 12,000.

On the separate business register count of warehousing and storage sites, Hampshire ranks 1st of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 25, against 215 in Hampshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 35. Next to Hampshire in that order sit Kent at 210.

None of these counts is a vacancy figure. They describe 7,000 jobs across 215 warehousing sites as the surveys found them in Hampshire, and the live list above is what is open now.