Van and multi-drop driver jobs in North Tyneside

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 85 employee jobs in North Tyneside, 0.1% of the 88,000 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, North Tyneside records 985 employee jobs, 1.12% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 100 postal and courier activities workplaces in North Tyneside 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 North Tyneside, 85 are part time, 100% of the split. The middle across the North East is 71.8%, so North Tyneside sits above it, 2nd of 12 areas on this measure. Part-time hours outweigh full-time ones in the local split. Ask what a round actually pays across a full week before reading an advertised day rate as a wage.

Two further counts round out the North Tyneside picture: 400 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 500 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, North Tyneside ranks 7th of the 12 areas in the North East. The middle across the North East is 0.13%, against 0.1% in North Tyneside. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to North Tyneside in that order sit Sunderland at 0.15% and Middlesbrough at 0.08%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, North Tyneside ranks 6th of the 12 areas in the North East. The middle across the North East is 93, against 100 in North Tyneside. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to North Tyneside in that order sit South Tyneside at 105 and Northumberland at 85.

That is the size of the courier trade in North Tyneside, 85 jobs across 100 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.