Forklift operator jobs in Wiltshire

Forklift work is counted inside warehousing and storage, which comes to 2,500 employee jobs in Wiltshire, from 212,000 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 1.83% of employment in Wiltshire.

Median full-time pay in Wiltshire was £36,370 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 95 warehousing and storage sites in Wiltshire at the March 2025 reference date, 25 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 65 of them, 68.4%, 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 Wiltshire, 700 are part time, 25.9% of the split. The middle across the South West is 16.3%, so Wiltshire sits above it, 2nd of 14 areas on this measure. A part-time share at this level usually means twilight and weekend shifts running alongside the main rota.

Two further counts round out the Wiltshire picture: 1,250 employee jobs in freight transport by road, and 130 employee jobs in postal and courier activities.

Measured on employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work, Wiltshire ranks 6th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 2,955, against 3,880 in Wiltshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 2,975. Next to Wiltshire in that order sit Somerset at 6,305 and Gloucestershire at 3,610.

On the separate business register count of warehousing and storage sites, Wiltshire ranks 2nd of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 45, against 95 in Wiltshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 35. Next to Wiltshire in that order sit Devon at 105 and Somerset at 90.

None of these counts is a vacancy figure. They describe 2,500 jobs across 95 warehousing sites as the surveys found them in Wiltshire, and the live list above is what is open now.