Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Leicester

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 575 employee jobs in Leicester, 0.33% of the 173,000 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, Leicester records 3,575 employee jobs, 2.07% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 300 postal and courier activities workplaces in Leicester at the March 2025 reference date, 0 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 295 of them, 98.3%, 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 Leicester, 45 are part time, 7.3% of the split. The middle across the East Midlands is 8.5%, so Leicester sits below it, 7th of 9 areas on this measure. Almost all of the split is full time, which is unusual in parcel work and generally means employed rounds rather than self-employed ones.

Two further counts round out the Leicester picture: 1,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 2,000 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Leicester ranks 3rd of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 0.16%, against 0.33% in Leicester. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Leicester in that order sit West Northamptonshire at 0.59% and North Northamptonshire at 0.28%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Leicester ranks 3rd of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 263, against 295 in Leicester. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Leicester in that order sit Leicestershire at 335 and Nottinghamshire at 280.

That is the size of the courier trade in Leicester, 575 jobs across 300 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.