Forklift operator jobs in West Northamptonshire

Forklift work is counted inside warehousing and storage, which comes to 14,000 employee jobs in West Northamptonshire, from 216,000 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 8.69% of employment in West Northamptonshire.

Median full-time pay in West Northamptonshire was £38,313 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 155 warehousing and storage sites in West Northamptonshire 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. 70 of them, 45.2%, 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 West Northamptonshire, 2,000 are part time, 14.3% of the split. The middle across the East Midlands is 10.8%, so West Northamptonshire sits above it, 3rd 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 West Northamptonshire picture: 3,500 employee jobs in freight transport by road, and 1,275 employee jobs in postal and courier activities.

Measured on employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work, West Northamptonshire ranks 2nd of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 8,770, against 18,775 in West Northamptonshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 2,975. Next to West Northamptonshire in that order sit Leicestershire at 26,550 and Nottinghamshire at 14,635.

On the separate business register count of warehousing and storage sites, West Northamptonshire ranks 2nd of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 110, against 155 in West Northamptonshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 35. Next to West Northamptonshire in that order sit Leicestershire at 160 and Derbyshire at 135.

None of these counts is a vacancy figure. They describe 14,000 jobs across 155 warehousing sites as the surveys found them in West Northamptonshire, and the live list above is what is open now.