Forklift operator jobs in Oxfordshire

Forklift work is counted inside warehousing and storage, which comes to 5,000 employee jobs in Oxfordshire, from 389,000 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 2.01% of employment in Oxfordshire.

Median full-time pay in Oxfordshire was £42,951 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 100 warehousing and storage sites in Oxfordshire at the March 2025 reference date, 45 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 60 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 Oxfordshire, 400 are part time, 8.2% of the split. The middle across the South East is 13%, so Oxfordshire sits below it, 18th 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 Oxfordshire picture: 1,750 employee jobs in freight transport by road, and 1,050 employee jobs in postal and courier activities.

Measured on employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work, Oxfordshire ranks 4th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 2,400, against 7,800 in Oxfordshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 2,975. Next to Oxfordshire in that order sit Milton Keynes at 12,000 and Surrey at 7,650.

On the separate business register count of warehousing and storage sites, Oxfordshire ranks 5th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 25, against 100 in Oxfordshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 35. Next to Oxfordshire in that order sit West Sussex at 120 and Milton Keynes at 80.

None of these counts is a vacancy figure. They describe 5,000 jobs across 100 warehousing sites as the surveys found them in Oxfordshire, and the live list above is what is open now.