Van and multi-drop driver jobs in North Northamptonshire

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 425 employee jobs in North Northamptonshire, 0.28% of the 150,000 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 Northamptonshire records 9,925 employee jobs, 6.62% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 285 postal and courier activities workplaces in North Northamptonshire at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. 275 of them, 96.5%, 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 North Northamptonshire, 25 are part time, 5.6% of the split. The middle across the East Midlands is 8.5%, so North Northamptonshire sits below it, 8th 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 North Northamptonshire picture: 7,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 2,500 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, North Northamptonshire ranks 4th of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 0.16%, against 0.28% in North Northamptonshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to North Northamptonshire in that order sit Leicester at 0.33% and Nottinghamshire at 0.2%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, North Northamptonshire ranks 5th of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 263, against 275 in North Northamptonshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to North Northamptonshire in that order sit Nottinghamshire at 280 and Lincolnshire at 250.

That is the size of the courier trade in North Northamptonshire, 425 jobs across 285 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.