Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Medway

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 350 employee jobs in Medway, 0.36% of the 98,000 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, Medway records 2,250 employee jobs, 2.3% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 190 postal and courier activities workplaces in Medway at the March 2025 reference date. Every one of them is recorded as employing 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 Medway, 60 are part time, 16.7% of the split. The middle across the South East is 14.6%, so Medway sits above it, 5th of 19 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 Medway picture: 900 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, Medway ranks 10th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 0.36%, against 0.36% in Medway. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Medway in that order sit Milton Keynes at 0.39% and Surrey at 0.33%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Medway ranks 7th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 155, against 190 in Medway. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Medway in that order sit Southampton at 250 and Milton Keynes at 175.

That is the size of the courier trade in Medway, 350 jobs across 190 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.