Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Gloucestershire

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 360 employee jobs in Gloucestershire, 0.12% of the 306,000 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, Gloucestershire records 3,610 employee jobs, 1.18% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 160 postal and courier activities workplaces in Gloucestershire at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 155 of them, 96.9%, 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 Gloucestershire, 35 are part time, 10.1% of the split. The middle across the South West is 9.1%, so Gloucestershire sits above it, 7th of 15 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 Gloucestershire picture: 1,500 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, Gloucestershire ranks 7th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 0.09%, against 0.12% in Gloucestershire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Gloucestershire in that order sit Somerset at 0.13% and Cornwall at 0.09%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Gloucestershire ranks 8th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 155, against 155 in Gloucestershire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Gloucestershire in that order sit Somerset at 200 and North Somerset at 150.

That is the size of the courier trade in Gloucestershire, 360 jobs across 160 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.