Warehouse operative jobs in Calderdale

Warehousing and storage in Calderdale is counted at 450 employee jobs, 0.5% of the 90,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Picking and packing sit inside that count, along with goods in, stock control and shift management, because the survey counts sites rather than tasks. The 450 freight transport by road jobs in Calderdale are counted separately, and they are the vehicles those sites load.

UK Business Counts recorded 35 warehousing and storage sites in Calderdale at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 25 of them, 71.4%, employ under ten, well below the usual share. Warehousing that shape is built on big sheds, and big sheds mean four on four off, twilights and nights.

Of the warehousing and storage employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Calderdale, 30 are part time, 7% of the split. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 14.3%, so Calderdale sits below it, 12th of 15 areas on this measure. The split is almost entirely full time, which usually points to sites running fixed shift patterns rather than flexible cover.

Two further counts round out the Calderdale picture: 100 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 1,000 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on warehousing and storage, share of all employee jobs, Calderdale ranks 13th of the 15 areas in Yorkshire and The Humber. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 1.23%, against 0.5% in Calderdale. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.87%. Next to Calderdale in that order sit Sheffield at 0.84% and Hull at 0.48%.

On the separate business register count of warehousing sites employing 10 or more, Calderdale ranks 13th of the 15 areas in Yorkshire and The Humber. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 15, against 5 in Calderdale. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 10. Next to Calderdale in that order sit Rotherham at 10 and North Lincolnshire at 5.

The figures describe 450 warehouse jobs across 35 sites that exist in Calderdale. How many are open this week is the live list above.