Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Cardiff

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 365 employee jobs in Cardiff, 0.16% of the 227,000 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, Cardiff records 1,115 employee jobs, 0.49% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 160 postal and courier activities workplaces in Cardiff at the March 2025 reference date. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 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 Cardiff, 60 are part time, 19% of the split. The middle across Wales is 23.1%, so Cardiff sits below it, 10th of 17 areas on this measure. Parcel rounds are built around peaks rather than a working week, and a part-time share at this level is the ordinary result.

Two further counts round out the Cardiff picture: 400 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, Cardiff ranks 7th of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 0.08%, against 0.16% in Cardiff. Next to Cardiff in that order sit Swansea at 0.17% and Carmarthenshire at 0.15%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Cardiff ranks 1st of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 45, against 160 in Cardiff. Next to Cardiff in that order sit Swansea at 145.

That is the size of the courier trade in Cardiff, 365 jobs across 160 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.