Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Bath and North East Somerset

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 5 employee jobs in Bath and North East Somerset, 0.01% of the 97,000 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, Bath and North East Somerset records 455 employee jobs, 0.47% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 40 postal and courier activities workplaces in Bath and North East Somerset 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 Bath and North East Somerset, 0 are part time, 0% of the split. The middle across the South West is 9.1%, so Bath and North East Somerset sits below it, 12th of 15 areas on this measure. Almost all of the split is full time, which is unusual in parcel work and generally means employed rounds rather than self-employed ones.

Two further counts round out the Bath and North East Somerset picture: 100 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, Bath and North East Somerset ranks 14th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 0.09%, against 0.01% in Bath and North East Somerset. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Bath and North East Somerset in that order sit Plymouth at 0.02% and Torbay at 0.01%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Bath and North East Somerset ranks 14th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 155, against 40 in Bath and North East Somerset. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Bath and North East Somerset in that order sit Torbay at 60 and Isles of Scilly at 0.

That is the size of the courier trade in Bath and North East Somerset, 5 jobs across 40 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.