Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Essex

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 1,825 employee jobs in Essex, 0.3% of the 616,000 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, Essex records 12,325 employee jobs, 2% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 510 postal and courier activities workplaces in Essex at the March 2025 reference date, 30 of them employing ten people or more. 480 of them, 94.1%, 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 Essex, 195 are part time, 11.2% of the split. The middle across the East of England is 10.3%, so Essex sits level with it, 4th of 11 areas on this measure. That is a mostly full-time split, which tends to go with employed rounds on a fixed rota.

Two further counts round out the Essex picture: 6,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 4,500 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Essex ranks 4th of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 0.28%, against 0.3% in Essex. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Essex in that order sit Peterborough at 0.36% and Central Bedfordshire at 0.28%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Essex ranks 1st of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 290, against 480 in Essex. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Essex in that order sit Peterborough at 445.

That is the size of the courier trade in Essex, 1,825 jobs across 510 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.