Forklift operator jobs in Lincolnshire

Forklift work is counted inside warehousing and storage, which comes to 1,250 employee jobs in Lincolnshire, from 298,000 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 2.56% of employment in Lincolnshire.

Median full-time pay in Lincolnshire was £33,324 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 105 warehousing and storage sites in Lincolnshire at the March 2025 reference date, 30 of them employing ten people or more. 75 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 Lincolnshire, 125 are part time, 11.1% of the split. The middle across the East Midlands is 10.8%, so Lincolnshire sits level with it, 5th of 10 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 Lincolnshire picture: 6,000 employee jobs in freight transport by road, and 365 employee jobs in postal and courier activities.

Measured on employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work, Lincolnshire ranks 6th of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 8,770, against 7,615 in Lincolnshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 2,975. Next to Lincolnshire in that order sit North Northamptonshire at 9,925 and Leicester at 3,575.

On the separate business register count of warehousing and storage sites, Lincolnshire ranks 6th of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 110, against 105 in Lincolnshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 35. Next to Lincolnshire in that order sit North Northamptonshire at 115 and Nottingham at 40.

None of these counts is a vacancy figure. They describe 1,250 jobs across 105 warehousing sites as the surveys found them in Lincolnshire, and the live list above is what is open now.