Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Thurrock

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 475 employee jobs in Thurrock, 0.6% of the 79,000 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, Thurrock records 14,475 employee jobs, 18.3% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 160 postal and courier activities workplaces in Thurrock 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. 155 of them, 96.9%, 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 Thurrock, 35 are part time, 6.9% of the split. The middle across the East of England is 10.3%, so Thurrock sits below it, 8th of 11 areas on this measure. Almost all of the split is full time, which is unusual in parcel work and generally means employed rounds rather than self-employed ones.

Two further counts round out the Thurrock 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, Thurrock ranks 1st of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 0.28%, against 0.6% in Thurrock. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Thurrock in that order sit Luton at 0.39%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Thurrock ranks 8th of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 290, against 155 in Thurrock. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Thurrock in that order sit Cambridgeshire at 205 and Central Bedfordshire at 135.

That is the size of the courier trade in Thurrock, 475 jobs across 160 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.