Forklift operator jobs in West Sussex

Forklift work is counted inside warehousing and storage, which comes to 3,000 employee jobs in West Sussex, 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 1.72% of employment in West Sussex.

Median full-time pay in West Sussex was £37,916 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 120 warehousing and storage sites in West Sussex at the March 2025 reference date, 40 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 85 of them, 70.8%, 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 West Sussex, 400 are part time, 13.8% of the split. The middle across the South East is 13%, so West Sussex sits level with it, 9th 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 West Sussex picture: 1,750 employee jobs in freight transport by road, and 1,950 employee jobs in postal and courier activities.

Measured on employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work, West Sussex ranks 6th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 2,400, against 6,700 in West Sussex. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 2,975. Next to West Sussex in that order sit Surrey at 7,650 and Slough at 5,050.

On the separate business register count of warehousing and storage sites, West Sussex ranks 4th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 25, against 120 in West Sussex. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 35. Next to West Sussex in that order sit Surrey at 135 and Oxfordshire at 100.

None of these counts is a vacancy figure. They describe 3,000 jobs across 120 warehousing sites as the surveys found them in West Sussex, and the live list above is what is open now.