Van and multi-drop driver jobs in North Lincolnshire

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 110 employee jobs in North Lincolnshire, 0.15% of the 74,000 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, North Lincolnshire records 3,360 employee jobs, 4.54% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 140 postal and courier activities workplaces in North Lincolnshire 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 North Lincolnshire, 40 are part time, 42.1% of the split. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 26.2%, so North Lincolnshire sits above it, 2nd of 15 areas on this measure. A part-time share this size is normal in multi-drop, where evening and weekend rounds are a large part of the work.

Two further counts round out the North Lincolnshire picture: 1,250 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, North Lincolnshire ranks 9th of the 15 areas in Yorkshire and The Humber. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 0.15%, against 0.15% in North Lincolnshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to North Lincolnshire in that order sit Doncaster at 0.15% and Calderdale at 0.11%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, North Lincolnshire ranks 10th of the 15 areas in Yorkshire and The Humber. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 175, against 140 in North Lincolnshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to North Lincolnshire in that order sit Rotherham at 170 and East Riding of Yorkshire at 130.

That is the size of the courier trade in North Lincolnshire, 110 jobs across 140 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.