Van and multi-drop driver jobs in North Yorkshire

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 190 employee jobs in North Yorkshire, 0.07% of the 282,000 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 Yorkshire records 5,690 employee jobs, 2.02% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 105 postal and courier activities workplaces in North Yorkshire at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 100 of them, 95.2%, 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 North Yorkshire, 55 are part time, 28.9% of the split. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 26.2%, so North Yorkshire sits above it, 7th 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 Yorkshire picture: 2,500 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 3,000 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, North Yorkshire ranks 15th of the 15 areas in Yorkshire and The Humber. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 0.15%, against 0.07% in North Yorkshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to North Yorkshire in that order sit North East Lincolnshire at 0.08%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, North Yorkshire ranks 12th of the 15 areas in Yorkshire and The Humber. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 175, against 100 in North Yorkshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to North Yorkshire in that order sit East Riding of Yorkshire at 130 and North East Lincolnshire at 70.

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