Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Brighton and Hove

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 90 employee jobs in Brighton and Hove, 0.06% of the 146,000 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, Brighton and Hove records 290 employee jobs, 0.2% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 70 postal and courier activities workplaces in Brighton and Hove 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 Brighton and Hove, 25 are part time, 29.4% of the split. The middle across the South East is 14.6%, so Brighton and Hove sits above it, 2nd of 19 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 Brighton and Hove picture: 150 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 50 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Brighton and Hove ranks 19th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 0.36%, against 0.06% in Brighton and Hove. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Brighton and Hove in that order sit Windsor and Maidenhead at 0.13%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Brighton and Hove ranks 14th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 155, against 70 in Brighton and Hove. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Brighton and Hove in that order sit East Sussex at 85 and West Berkshire at 65.

That is the size of the courier trade in Brighton and Hove, 90 jobs across 70 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.