Forklift operator jobs in Shropshire

Forklift work is counted inside warehousing and storage, which comes to 1,500 employee jobs in Shropshire, from 130,000 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 2.25% of employment in Shropshire.

Median full-time pay in Shropshire was £34,232 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 Shropshire at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. 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 Shropshire, 100 are part time, 7.4% of the split. The middle across the West Midlands is 12.4%, so Shropshire sits below it, 12th of 14 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 Shropshire picture: 1,250 employee jobs in freight transport by road, and 170 employee jobs in postal and courier activities.

Measured on employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work, Shropshire ranks 12th of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 6,283, against 2,920 in Shropshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 2,975. Next to Shropshire in that order sit Wolverhampton at 2,925 and Dudley at 1,800.

On the separate business register count of warehousing and storage sites, Shropshire ranks 12th of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 55, against 35 in Shropshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 35. Next to Shropshire in that order sit Herefordshire, County of at 35 and Solihull at 25.

None of these counts is a vacancy figure. They describe 1,500 jobs across 35 warehousing sites as the surveys found them in Shropshire, and the live list above is what is open now.