Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Gateshead

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 510 employee jobs in Gateshead, 0.54% of the 95,000 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, Gateshead records 4,760 employee jobs, 5.01% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 130 postal and courier activities workplaces in Gateshead at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. 120 of them, 92.3%, 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 Gateshead, 210 are part time, 41.2% of the split. The middle across the North East is 71.8%, so Gateshead sits below it, 10th of 12 areas on this measure. A part-time share this size is normal in multi-drop, where evening and weekend rounds are a large part of the work.

Two further counts round out the Gateshead picture: 3,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 1,250 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Gateshead ranks 2nd of the 12 areas in the North East. The middle across the North East is 0.13%, against 0.54% in Gateshead. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Gateshead in that order sit South Tyneside at 1% and Stockton-on-Tees at 0.43%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Gateshead ranks 4th of the 12 areas in the North East. The middle across the North East is 93, against 120 in Gateshead. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Gateshead in that order sit Newcastle upon Tyne at 130 and South Tyneside at 105.

That is the size of the courier trade in Gateshead, 510 jobs across 130 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.