Van and multi-drop driver jobs in East Riding of Yorkshire

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 235 employee jobs in East Riding of Yorkshire, 0.18% of the 131,000 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, East Riding of Yorkshire records 4,235 employee jobs, 3.23% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 135 postal and courier activities workplaces in East Riding of Yorkshire at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 130 of them, 96.3%, 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 East Riding of Yorkshire, 55 are part time, 26.2% of the split. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 26.2%, so East Riding of Yorkshire sits level with it, 8th of 15 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 East Riding of Yorkshire picture: 2,250 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 1,750 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, East Riding of Yorkshire ranks 6th of the 15 areas in Yorkshire and The Humber. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 0.15%, against 0.18% in East Riding of Yorkshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to East Riding of Yorkshire in that order sit Barnsley at 0.21% and Sheffield at 0.16%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, East Riding of Yorkshire ranks 11th of the 15 areas in Yorkshire and The Humber. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 175, against 130 in East Riding of Yorkshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to East Riding of Yorkshire in that order sit North Lincolnshire at 140 and North Yorkshire at 100.

That is the size of the courier trade in East Riding of Yorkshire, 235 jobs across 135 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.