Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Derby

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 60 employee jobs in Derby, 0.04% of the 138,000 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, Derby records 1,660 employee jobs, 1.2% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 155 postal and courier activities workplaces in Derby at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 150 of them, 96.8%, 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 Derby, 5 are part time, 7.7% of the split. The middle across the East Midlands is 8.5%, so Derby sits level with it, 6th of 9 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 Derby picture: 1,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 600 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Derby ranks 9th of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 0.16%, against 0.04% in Derby. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Derby in that order sit Nottingham at 0.11% and Rutland at 0%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Derby ranks 9th of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 263, against 150 in Derby. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Derby in that order sit Nottingham at 190 and Rutland at 5.

That is the size of the courier trade in Derby, 60 jobs across 155 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.