Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Lewisham

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 120 employee jobs in Lewisham, 0.17% of the 69,000 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, Lewisham records 320 employee jobs, 0.46% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 145 postal and courier activities workplaces in Lewisham 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. 140 of them, 96.6%, 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 Lewisham, 20 are part time, 18.2% of the split. The middle across London is 13.5%, so Lewisham sits above it, 6th of 33 areas on this measure. Parcel rounds are built around peaks rather than a working week, and a part-time share at this level is the ordinary result.

Two further counts round out the Lewisham picture: 100 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 100 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Lewisham ranks 15th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 0.15%, against 0.17% in Lewisham. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Lewisham in that order sit Croydon at 0.18% and Waltham Forest at 0.17%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Lewisham ranks 13th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 130, against 140 in Lewisham. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Lewisham in that order sit Harrow at 165 and Waltham Forest at 135.

That is the size of the courier trade in Lewisham, 120 jobs across 145 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.