Forklift operator jobs in Nottinghamshire

Forklift work is counted inside warehousing and storage, which comes to 10,000 employee jobs in Nottinghamshire, from 324,000 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 4.52% of employment in Nottinghamshire.

Median full-time pay in Nottinghamshire was £33,751 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 125 warehousing and storage sites in Nottinghamshire at the March 2025 reference date, 50 of them employing ten people or more. 75 of them, 60%, 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 Nottinghamshire, 1,000 are part time, 10% of the split. The middle across the East Midlands is 10.8%, so Nottinghamshire sits level with it, 8th of 10 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 Nottinghamshire picture: 4,000 employee jobs in freight transport by road, and 635 employee jobs in postal and courier activities.

Measured on employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work, Nottinghamshire ranks 3rd of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 8,770, against 14,635 in Nottinghamshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 2,975. Next to Nottinghamshire in that order sit West Northamptonshire at 18,775 and Derbyshire at 14,375.

On the separate business register count of warehousing and storage sites, Nottinghamshire ranks 4th of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 110, against 125 in Nottinghamshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 35. Next to Nottinghamshire in that order sit Derbyshire at 135 and North Northamptonshire at 115.

None of these counts is a vacancy figure. They describe 10,000 jobs across 125 warehousing sites as the surveys found them in Nottinghamshire, and the live list above is what is open now.