Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Angus

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 35 employee jobs in Angus, 0.1% of the 36,000 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, Angus records 435 employee jobs, 1.21% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 45 postal and courier activities workplaces in Angus at the March 2025 reference date. 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 Angus, 10 are part time, 28.6% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 18.9%, so Angus sits above it, 8th of 28 areas on this measure. A part-time share this size is normal in multi-drop, where evening and weekend rounds are a large part of the work.

Two further counts round out the Angus picture: 50 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 350 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Angus ranks 16th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 0.1%, against 0.1% in Angus. Next to Angus in that order sit Aberdeenshire at 0.1% and Glasgow City at 0.1%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Angus ranks 14th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 38, against 45 in Angus. Next to Angus in that order sit Dumfries and Galloway at 60 and Perth and Kinross at 45.

That is the size of the courier trade in Angus, 35 jobs across 45 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.