Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Cambridgeshire

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 370 employee jobs in Cambridgeshire, 0.1% of the 359,000 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, Cambridgeshire records 6,870 employee jobs, 1.91% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 215 postal and courier activities workplaces in Cambridgeshire at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. 205 of them, 95.3%, 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 Cambridgeshire, 20 are part time, 5.2% of the split. The middle across the East of England is 10.3%, so Cambridgeshire sits below it, 10th of 11 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 Cambridgeshire picture: 2,500 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 4,000 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Cambridgeshire ranks 10th of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 0.28%, against 0.1% in Cambridgeshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Cambridgeshire in that order sit Bedford at 0.16% and Southend-on-Sea at 0.03%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Cambridgeshire ranks 7th of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 290, against 205 in Cambridgeshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Cambridgeshire in that order sit Luton at 290 and Thurrock at 155.

That is the size of the courier trade in Cambridgeshire, 370 jobs across 215 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.