Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Merton

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 190 employee jobs in Merton, 0.24% of the 78,000 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, Merton records 1,115 employee jobs, 1.43% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 105 postal and courier activities workplaces in Merton at the March 2025 reference date. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 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 Merton, 25 are part time, 13.5% of the split. The middle across London is 13.5%, so Merton sits level with it, 17th of 33 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 Merton picture: 700 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 225 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Merton ranks 11th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 0.15%, against 0.24% in Merton. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Merton in that order sit Camden at 0.24% and Haringey at 0.21%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Merton ranks 21st of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 130, against 105 in Merton. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Merton in that order sit Hackney at 115 and Southwark at 100.

That is the size of the courier trade in Merton, 190 jobs across 105 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.