Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Nottinghamshire

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 635 employee jobs in Nottinghamshire, 0.2% of the 324,000 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, Nottinghamshire records 14,635 employee jobs, 4.52% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 290 postal and courier activities workplaces in Nottinghamshire at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. 280 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 Nottinghamshire, 75 are part time, 12.4% of the split. The middle across the East Midlands is 8.5%, so Nottinghamshire sits above it, 2nd of 9 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 Nottinghamshire picture: 10,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 4,000 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Nottinghamshire ranks 5th of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 0.16%, against 0.2% in Nottinghamshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Nottinghamshire in that order sit North Northamptonshire at 0.28% and Derbyshire at 0.12%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Nottinghamshire ranks 4th of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 263, against 280 in Nottinghamshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Nottinghamshire in that order sit Leicester at 295 and North Northamptonshire at 275.

That is the size of the courier trade in Nottinghamshire, 635 jobs across 290 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.