Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Dudley

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 100 employee jobs in Dudley, 0.09% of the 106,000 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, Dudley records 1,800 employee jobs, 1.7% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 120 postal and courier activities workplaces in Dudley 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. 115 of them, 95.8%, 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 Dudley, 5 are part time, 4.8% of the split. The middle across the West Midlands is 8.9%, so Dudley sits below it, 12th of 14 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 Dudley picture: 700 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 1,000 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Dudley ranks 14th of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 0.21%, against 0.09% in Dudley. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Dudley in that order sit Telford and Wrekin at 0.12%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Dudley ranks 10th of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 220, against 115 in Dudley. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Dudley in that order sit Wolverhampton at 190 and Solihull at 75.

That is the size of the courier trade in Dudley, 100 jobs across 120 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.