Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Cheshire West and Chester

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 525 employee jobs in Cheshire West and Chester, 0.3% of the 176,000 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, Cheshire West and Chester records 3,025 employee jobs, 1.72% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 120 postal and courier activities workplaces in Cheshire West and Chester at the March 2025 reference date, 0 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 115 of them, 95.8%, 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 Cheshire West and Chester, 10 are part time, 1.9% of the split. The middle across the North West is 7.1%, so Cheshire West and Chester sits below it, 21st of 24 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 Cheshire West and Chester picture: 1,500 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 1,000 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Cheshire West and Chester ranks 12th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 0.28%, against 0.3% in Cheshire West and Chester. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Cheshire West and Chester in that order sit Liverpool at 0.36% and Cheshire East at 0.26%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Cheshire West and Chester ranks 12th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 113, against 115 in Cheshire West and Chester. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Cheshire West and Chester in that order sit Rochdale at 120 and St. Helens at 110.

That is the size of the courier trade in Cheshire West and Chester, 525 jobs across 120 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.