Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Harrow

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 85 employee jobs in Harrow, 0.12% of the 73,000 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, Harrow records 480 employee jobs, 0.66% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 165 postal and courier activities workplaces in Harrow 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 Harrow, 10 are part time, 14.3% of the split. The middle across London is 13.5%, so Harrow sits level with it, 12th 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 Harrow picture: 45 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 350 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Harrow ranks 20th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 0.15%, against 0.12% in Harrow. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Harrow in that order sit Redbridge at 0.14% and Barnet at 0.11%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Harrow ranks 12th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 130, against 165 in Harrow. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Harrow in that order sit Barnet at 170 and Lewisham at 140.

That is the size of the courier trade in Harrow, 85 jobs across 165 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.