Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Edinburgh

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 605 employee jobs in Edinburgh, 0.16% of the 368,000 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, Edinburgh records 1,505 employee jobs, 0.41% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 140 postal and courier activities workplaces in Edinburgh at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. 130 of them, 92.9%, employ under ten, and many of those are owner-drivers, so employment status matters more here than the vehicle.

Of the postal and courier activities employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Edinburgh, 50 are part time, 7.6% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 18.9%, so Edinburgh sits below it, 24th of 28 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 Edinburgh picture: 600 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 300 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Edinburgh ranks 8th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 0.1%, against 0.16% in Edinburgh. Next to Edinburgh in that order sit Highland at 0.23% and Argyll and Bute at 0.14%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Edinburgh ranks 6th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 38, against 130 in Edinburgh. Next to Edinburgh in that order sit Aberdeen City at 175 and Fife at 105.

That is the size of the courier trade in Edinburgh, 605 jobs across 140 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.