Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Bradford

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 165 employee jobs in Bradford, 0.08% of the 199,000 employee jobs in the area.

Parcel volume follows population and depot placement rather than local industry, so an area with a sorting hub in it carries a count well above its size. Taking freight, warehousing and courier work together, Bradford records 4,415 employee jobs, 2.22% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 220 postal and courier activities workplaces in Bradford at the March 2025 reference date, 0 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 215 of them, 97.7%, employ under ten. A one-person courier operation is usually an owner-driver, and an owner-driver round is a contract, not a job.

Of the postal and courier activities employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Bradford, 60 are part time, 37.5% of the split. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 26.2%, so Bradford sits above it, 3rd of 15 areas on this measure. A part-time share this size is normal in multi-drop, where evening and weekend rounds are a large part of the work.

Two further counts round out the Bradford picture: 3,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 1,250 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Bradford ranks 13th of the 15 areas in Yorkshire and The Humber. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 0.15%, against 0.08% in Bradford. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Bradford in that order sit York at 0.09% and North East Lincolnshire at 0.08%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Bradford ranks 5th of the 15 areas in Yorkshire and The Humber. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 175, against 215 in Bradford. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Bradford in that order sit Wakefield at 230 and Kirklees at 210.

That is the size of the courier trade in Bradford, 165 jobs across 220 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.