Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Ealing

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 480 employee jobs in Ealing, 0.38% of the 128,000 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, Ealing records 3,030 employee jobs, 2.37% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 205 postal and courier activities workplaces in Ealing at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. 195 of them, 95.1%, 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 Ealing, 50 are part time, 10.5% of the split. The middle across London is 13.5%, so Ealing sits below it, 23rd of 33 areas on this measure. That is a mostly full-time split, which tends to go with employed rounds on a fixed rota.

Two further counts round out the Ealing picture: 1,750 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 800 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Ealing ranks 6th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 0.15%, against 0.38% in Ealing. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Ealing in that order sit Sutton at 0.44% and Newham at 0.38%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Ealing ranks 6th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 130, against 195 in Ealing. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Ealing in that order sit Enfield at 205 and Hillingdon at 190.

That is the size of the courier trade in Ealing, 480 jobs across 205 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.