Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Cheshire East

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 530 employee jobs in Cheshire East, 0.26% of the 207,000 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, Cheshire East records 6,280 employee jobs, 3.03% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 140 postal and courier activities workplaces in Cheshire East at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 135 of them, 96.4%, 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 Cheshire East, 25 are part time, 4.5% of the split. The middle across the North West is 7.1%, so Cheshire East sits below it, 17th of 24 areas on this measure. Almost all of the split is full time, which is unusual in parcel work and generally means employed rounds rather than self-employed ones.

Two further counts round out the Cheshire East picture: 4,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 1,750 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Cheshire East ranks 13th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 0.28%, against 0.26% in Cheshire East. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Cheshire East in that order sit Cheshire West and Chester at 0.3% and St. Helens at 0.25%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Cheshire East ranks 9th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 113, against 135 in Cheshire East. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Cheshire East in that order sit Salford at 175 and Oldham at 125.

That is the size of the courier trade in Cheshire East, 530 jobs across 140 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.