Forklift operator jobs in Staffordshire

Forklift work is counted inside warehousing and storage, which comes to 13,000 employee jobs in Staffordshire, from 356,000 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 5.97% of employment in Staffordshire.

Median full-time pay in Staffordshire was £34,532 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 180 warehousing and storage sites in Staffordshire at the March 2025 reference date, 80 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 95 of them, 52.8%, 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 Staffordshire, 1,750 are part time, 13.7% of the split. The middle across the West Midlands is 12.4%, so Staffordshire sits above it, 6th 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 Staffordshire picture: 7,000 employee jobs in freight transport by road, and 1,260 employee jobs in postal and courier activities.

Measured on employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work, Staffordshire ranks 2nd of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 6,283, against 21,260 in Staffordshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 2,975. Next to Staffordshire in that order sit Warwickshire at 21,520 and Birmingham at 11,575.

On the separate business register count of warehousing and storage sites, Staffordshire ranks 1st of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 55, against 180 in Staffordshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 35. Next to Staffordshire in that order sit Birmingham at 175.

None of these counts is a vacancy figure. They describe 13,000 jobs across 180 warehousing sites as the surveys found them in Staffordshire, and the live list above is what is open now.