Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Brent

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 385 employee jobs in Brent, 0.32% of the 121,000 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, Brent records 2,835 employee jobs, 2.34% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 235 postal and courier activities workplaces in Brent at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 225 of them, 95.7%, employ 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 Brent, 40 are part time, 10.8% of the split. The middle across London is 13.5%, so Brent sits below it, 20th of 33 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 Brent picture: 2,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 450 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Brent ranks 8th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 0.15%, against 0.32% in Brent. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Brent in that order sit Newham at 0.38% and Bexley at 0.28%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Brent ranks 3rd of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 130, against 225 in Brent. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Brent in that order sit Newham at 230 and Camden at 225.

That is the size of the courier trade in Brent, 385 jobs across 235 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.