Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Aberdeenshire

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 105 employee jobs in Aberdeenshire, 0.1% of the 102,000 employee jobs in the area.

Parcel volume follows population and depot placement rather than local industry, so an area with a sorting hub in it carries a count well above its size. Taking freight, warehousing and courier work together, Aberdeenshire records 1,405 employee jobs, 1.38% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 90 postal and courier activities workplaces in Aberdeenshire at the March 2025 reference date. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. Every one of them is recorded as employing under ten. A one-person courier operation is usually an owner-driver, and an owner-driver round is a contract, not a job.

Of the postal and courier activities employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Aberdeenshire, 15 are part time, 15.8% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 18.9%, so Aberdeenshire sits below it, 18th of 28 areas on this measure. That is a mostly full-time split, which tends to go with employed rounds on a fixed rota.

Two further counts round out the Aberdeenshire picture: 600 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 700 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Aberdeenshire ranks 15th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 0.1%, against 0.1% in Aberdeenshire. Next to Aberdeenshire in that order sit Aberdeen City at 0.1% and Angus at 0.1%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Aberdeenshire ranks 8th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 38, against 90 in Aberdeenshire. Next to Aberdeenshire in that order sit Fife at 105 and Dundee City at 80.

That is the size of the courier trade in Aberdeenshire, 105 jobs across 90 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.