Warehouse operative jobs in East Ayrshire

Warehousing and storage in East Ayrshire is counted at 150 employee jobs, 0.37% of the 41,000 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 250 freight transport by road jobs in East Ayrshire are counted separately, and they are the vehicles those sites load.

UK Business Counts recorded 5 warehousing and storage sites in East Ayrshire at the March 2025 reference date. Every one of them is recorded as employing under ten: small stores and yards rather than distribution centres.

Of the warehousing and storage employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in East Ayrshire, 20 are part time, 11.8% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 14.3%, so East Ayrshire sits below it, 20th of 31 areas on this measure. That is a full-time shift picture, with part-time hours around weekend and peak cover.

Two further counts round out the East Ayrshire picture: 25 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 425 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on warehousing and storage, share of all employee jobs, East Ayrshire ranks 14th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 0.18%, against 0.37% in East Ayrshire. Next to East Ayrshire in that order sit Highland at 0.38% and Glasgow City at 0.23%.

On the separate business register count of warehousing sites employing 10 or more, East Ayrshire ranks 18th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 0, against 0 in East Ayrshire. Next to East Ayrshire in that order sit Dumfries and Galloway at 0 and East Dunbartonshire at 0.

The figures describe 150 warehouse jobs across 5 sites that exist in East Ayrshire. How many are open this week is the live list above.