Forklift operator jobs in Liverpool

Forklift work is counted inside warehousing and storage, which comes to 4,000 employee jobs in Liverpool, from 288,000 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 2.35% of employment in Liverpool.

Median full-time pay in Liverpool was £38,430 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 50 warehousing and storage sites in Liverpool at the March 2025 reference date, 25 of them employing ten people or more. 25 of them, 50%, 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 Liverpool, 450 are part time, 11.4% of the split. The middle across the North West is 14.3%, so Liverpool sits below it, 17th of 24 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 Liverpool picture: 1,750 employee jobs in freight transport by road, and 1,025 employee jobs in postal and courier activities.

Measured on employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work, Liverpool ranks 3rd of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 3,450, against 6,775 in Liverpool. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 2,975. Next to Liverpool in that order sit Warrington at 8,400 and Cheshire East at 6,280.

On the separate business register count of warehousing and storage sites, Liverpool ranks 6th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 38, against 50 in Liverpool. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 35. Next to Liverpool in that order sit Manchester at 55 and Rochdale at 45.

None of these counts is a vacancy figure. They describe 4,000 jobs across 50 warehousing sites as the surveys found them in Liverpool, and the live list above is what is open now.