Forklift operator jobs in Calderdale

Forklift work is counted inside warehousing and storage, which comes to 450 employee jobs in Calderdale, from 90,000 employee jobs across the area.

That count covers whole sites rather than truck types, so counterbalance on the bays, reach in the racking and VNA in the narrow aisles are all inside it, together with the picking most operators also do. Freight, warehousing and courier work together make up 1.11% of employment in Calderdale.

Median full-time pay in Calderdale was £34,966 a year in 2025 across all occupations combined. Forklift work is not published separately at this level, so treat that as area context and read the rate on the advert.

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. Large sites use the full range of truck types, so a ticket beyond counterbalance is worth more here.

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. Nearly all of the split is full time, which on forklift work generally means a fixed shift rather than cover.

Two further counts round out the Calderdale picture: 450 employee jobs in freight transport by road, and 100 employee jobs in postal and courier activities.

Measured on employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work, Calderdale ranks 14th of the 15 areas in Yorkshire and The Humber. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 3,620, against 1,000 in Calderdale. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 2,975. Next to Calderdale in that order sit Hull at 1,515 and York at 260.

On the separate business register count of warehousing and storage sites, Calderdale ranks 11th of the 15 areas in Yorkshire and The Humber. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 45, against 35 in Calderdale. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 35. Next to Calderdale in that order sit Rotherham at 40 and North Lincolnshire at 30.

None of these counts is a vacancy figure. They describe 450 jobs across 35 warehousing sites as the surveys found them in Calderdale, and the live list above is what is open now.