Warehouse operative jobs in Falkirk

Warehousing and storage in Falkirk is counted at 1,500 employee jobs, 2.11% of the 71,000 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 1,000 freight transport by road jobs in Falkirk are counted separately, and they are the vehicles those sites load.

UK Business Counts recorded 25 warehousing and storage sites in Falkirk at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 10 of them, 40%, 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 Falkirk, 125 are part time, 9.1% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 14.3%, so Falkirk sits below it, 23rd 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 Falkirk picture: 50 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 2,550 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on warehousing and storage, share of all employee jobs, Falkirk ranks 5th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 0.18%, against 2.11% in Falkirk. Next to Falkirk in that order sit Clackmannanshire at 2.14% and Shetland Islands at 1.54%.

On the separate business register count of warehousing sites employing 10 or more, Falkirk ranks 9th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 0, against 10 in Falkirk. Next to Falkirk in that order sit Edinburgh at 10 and Fife at 10.

The figures describe 1,500 warehouse jobs across 25 sites that exist in Falkirk. How many are open this week is the live list above.