Forklift operator jobs in Cheshire East

Forklift work is counted inside warehousing and storage, which comes to 4,000 employee jobs in Cheshire East, from 207,000 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 3.03% of employment in Cheshire East.

Median full-time pay in Cheshire East was £39,459 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 60 warehousing and storage sites in Cheshire East at the March 2025 reference date, 30 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, 41.7%, 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 Cheshire East, 500 are part time, 12.5% of the split. The middle across the North West is 14.3%, so Cheshire East sits below it, 15th of 24 areas on this measure. That is a full-time shift pattern with part-time hours around the edges of it.

Two further counts round out the Cheshire East picture: 1,750 employee jobs in freight transport by road, and 530 employee jobs in postal and courier activities.

Measured on employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work, Cheshire East ranks 4th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 3,450, against 6,280 in Cheshire East. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 2,975. Next to Cheshire East in that order sit Liverpool at 6,775 and Bolton at 5,725.

On the separate business register count of warehousing and storage sites, Cheshire East ranks 4th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 38, against 60 in Cheshire East. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 35. Next to Cheshire East in that order sit Warrington at 65 and Manchester at 55.

None of these counts is a vacancy figure. They describe 4,000 jobs across 60 warehousing sites as the surveys found them in Cheshire East, and the live list above is what is open now.