Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Hertfordshire

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 1,800 employee jobs in Hertfordshire, 0.28% of the 652,000 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, Hertfordshire records 12,300 employee jobs, 1.89% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 435 postal and courier activities workplaces in Hertfordshire at the March 2025 reference date, 20 of them employing ten people or more. 415 of them, 95.4%, 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 Hertfordshire, 155 are part time, 9.1% of the split. The middle across the East of England is 10.3%, so Hertfordshire sits below it, 7th of 11 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 Hertfordshire 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, Hertfordshire ranks 6th of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 0.28%, against 0.28% in Hertfordshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Hertfordshire in that order sit Central Bedfordshire at 0.28% and Norfolk at 0.21%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Hertfordshire ranks 4th of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 290, against 415 in Hertfordshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Hertfordshire in that order sit Norfolk at 430 and Suffolk at 345.

That is the size of the courier trade in Hertfordshire, 1,800 jobs across 435 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.