Warehouse operative jobs in Swansea

Warehousing and storage in Swansea is counted at 350 employee jobs, 0.32% of the 108,000 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 300 freight transport by road jobs in Swansea are counted separately, and they are the vehicles those sites load.

UK Business Counts recorded 25 warehousing and storage sites in Swansea at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. 15 of them, 60%, 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 Swansea, 50 are part time, 14.3% of the split. The middle across Wales is 14.5%, so Swansea sits level with it, 13th of 22 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 Swansea picture: 185 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 835 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on warehousing and storage, share of all employee jobs, Swansea ranks 13th of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 0.38%, against 0.32% in Swansea. Next to Swansea in that order sit Merthyr Tydfil at 0.33% and Pembrokeshire at 0.28%.

On the separate business register count of warehousing sites employing 10 or more, Swansea ranks 5th of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 5, against 10 in Swansea. Next to Swansea in that order sit Rhondda Cynon Taf at 10 and Blaenau Gwent at 5.

The figures describe 350 warehouse jobs across 25 sites that exist in Swansea. How many are open this week is the live list above.