Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Midlothian

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 45 employee jobs in Midlothian, 0.14% of the 33,000 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, Midlothian records 295 employee jobs, 0.89% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 35 postal and courier activities workplaces in Midlothian 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 Midlothian, 10 are part time, 22.2% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 18.9%, so Midlothian sits above it, 11th 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 Midlothian picture: 50 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 200 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Midlothian ranks 10th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 0.1%, against 0.14% in Midlothian. Next to Midlothian in that order sit Argyll and Bute at 0.14% and Stirling at 0.14%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Midlothian ranks 17th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 38, against 35 in Midlothian. Next to Midlothian in that order sit North Ayrshire at 40 and East Dunbartonshire at 30.

That is the size of the courier trade in Midlothian, 45 jobs across 35 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.