Forklift operator jobs in Wokingham

Forklift work is counted inside warehousing and storage, which comes to 250 employee jobs in Wokingham, from 90,000 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 0.71% of employment in Wokingham.

Median full-time pay in Wokingham was £46,574 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 15 warehousing and storage sites in Wokingham at the March 2025 reference date. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. Every one of them is recorded as employing under ten. A site that small runs a truck or two and the operator picks for most of the shift.

Of the warehousing and storage employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Wokingham, 30 are part time, 10.7% of the split. The middle across the South East is 13%, so Wokingham sits below it, 14th 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 Wokingham picture: 250 employee jobs in freight transport by road, and 140 employee jobs in postal and courier activities.

Measured on employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work, Wokingham ranks 15th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 2,400, against 640 in Wokingham. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 2,975. Next to Wokingham in that order sit East Sussex at 1,450 and Isle of Wight at 510.

On the separate business register count of warehousing and storage sites, Wokingham ranks 17th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 25, against 15 in Wokingham. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 35. Next to Wokingham in that order sit Isle of Wight at 15 and Brighton and Hove at 10.

None of these counts is a vacancy figure. They describe 250 jobs across 15 warehousing sites as the surveys found them in Wokingham, and the live list above is what is open now.