Forklift operator jobs in Gloucestershire

Forklift work is counted inside warehousing and storage, which comes to 1,500 employee jobs in Gloucestershire, from 306,000 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 1.18% of employment in Gloucestershire.

Median full-time pay in Gloucestershire was £37,598 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 85 warehousing and storage sites in Gloucestershire at the March 2025 reference date, 30 of them employing ten people or more. 55 of them, 64.7%, 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 Gloucestershire, 200 are part time, 13.8% of the split. The middle across the South West is 16.3%, so Gloucestershire sits below it, 10th of 14 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 Gloucestershire picture: 1,750 employee jobs in freight transport by road, and 360 employee jobs in postal and courier activities.

Measured on employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work, Gloucestershire ranks 7th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 2,955, against 3,610 in Gloucestershire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 2,975. Next to Gloucestershire in that order sit Wiltshire at 3,880 and Cornwall at 2,955.

On the separate business register count of warehousing and storage sites, Gloucestershire ranks 4th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 45, against 85 in Gloucestershire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 35. Next to Gloucestershire in that order sit Somerset at 90 and Bristol, City of at 80.

None of these counts is a vacancy figure. They describe 1,500 jobs across 85 warehousing sites as the surveys found them in Gloucestershire, and the live list above is what is open now.