Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Highland

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 265 employee jobs in Highland, 0.23% of the 117,000 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, Highland records 1,615 employee jobs, 1.38% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 75 postal and courier activities workplaces in Highland at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 70 of them, 93.3%, 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 Highland, 55 are part time, 20.8% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 18.9%, so Highland sits above it, 12th of 28 areas on this measure. Parcel rounds are built around peaks rather than a working week, and a part-time share at this level is the ordinary result.

Two further counts round out the Highland picture: 450 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 900 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Highland ranks 7th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 0.1%, against 0.23% in Highland. Next to Highland in that order sit South Lanarkshire at 0.24% and Edinburgh at 0.16%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Highland ranks 12th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 38, against 70 in Highland. Next to Highland in that order sit Renfrewshire at 80 and Dumfries and Galloway at 60.

That is the size of the courier trade in Highland, 265 jobs across 75 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.