Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Hampshire

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 1,925 employee jobs in Hampshire, 0.31% 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, Hampshire records 12,425 employee jobs, 2.02% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 430 postal and courier activities workplaces in Hampshire at the March 2025 reference date, 25 of them employing ten people or more. 405 of them, 94.2%, 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 Hampshire, 255 are part time, 13.4% of the split. The middle across the South East is 14.6%, so Hampshire sits below it, 13th of 19 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 Hampshire picture: 7,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 3,500 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Hampshire ranks 12th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 0.36%, against 0.31% in Hampshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Hampshire in that order sit Surrey at 0.33% and Bracknell Forest at 0.27%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Hampshire ranks 2nd of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 155, against 405 in Hampshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Hampshire in that order sit Kent at 605 and West Sussex at 395.

That is the size of the courier trade in Hampshire, 1,925 jobs across 430 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.