Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Greenwich

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 80 employee jobs in Greenwich, 0.09% of the 92,000 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, Greenwich records 1,530 employee jobs, 1.66% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 130 postal and courier activities workplaces in Greenwich at the March 2025 reference date. Every one of them is recorded as employing 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 Greenwich, 10 are part time, 12.5% of the split. The middle across London is 13.5%, so Greenwich sits below it, 19th of 33 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 Greenwich picture: 1,250 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 200 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Greenwich ranks 23rd of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 0.15%, against 0.09% in Greenwich. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Greenwich in that order sit Bromley at 0.1% and Kingston upon Thames at 0.09%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Greenwich ranks 15th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 130, against 130 in Greenwich. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Greenwich in that order sit Waltham Forest at 135 and Haringey at 130.

That is the size of the courier trade in Greenwich, 80 jobs across 130 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.