Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Lincolnshire

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 365 employee jobs in Lincolnshire, 0.12% of the 298,000 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, Lincolnshire records 7,615 employee jobs, 2.56% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 260 postal and courier activities workplaces in Lincolnshire at the March 2025 reference date, 15 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 250 of them, 96.2%, 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 Lincolnshire, 45 are part time, 12.5% of the split. The middle across the East Midlands is 8.5%, so Lincolnshire sits above it, 1st of 9 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 Lincolnshire picture: 1,250 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 6,000 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Lincolnshire ranks 7th of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 0.16%, against 0.12% in Lincolnshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Lincolnshire in that order sit Derbyshire at 0.12% and Nottingham at 0.11%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Lincolnshire ranks 6th of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 263, against 250 in Lincolnshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Lincolnshire in that order sit North Northamptonshire at 275 and Derbyshire at 220.

That is the size of the courier trade in Lincolnshire, 365 jobs across 260 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.