Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Kensington and Chelsea

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 25 employee jobs in Kensington and Chelsea, 0.02% of the 124,000 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, Kensington and Chelsea records 125 employee jobs, 0.1% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 25 postal and courier activities workplaces in Kensington and Chelsea 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 Kensington and Chelsea, 5 are part time, 20% of the split. The middle across London is 13.5%, so Kensington and Chelsea sits above it, 2nd of 33 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 Kensington and Chelsea picture: 50 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 50 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Kensington and Chelsea ranks 32nd of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 0.15%, against 0.02% in Kensington and Chelsea. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Kensington and Chelsea in that order sit Westminster at 0.03% and City of London at 0%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Kensington and Chelsea ranks 32nd of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 130, against 25 in Kensington and Chelsea. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Kensington and Chelsea in that order sit Richmond upon Thames at 30 and City of London at 0.

That is the size of the courier trade in Kensington and Chelsea, 25 jobs across 25 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.