Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Oldham

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 735 employee jobs in Oldham, 0.8% of the 92,000 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, Oldham records 2,135 employee jobs, 2.32% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 130 postal and courier activities workplaces in Oldham at the March 2025 reference date, 0 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 125 of them, 96.2%, 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 Oldham, 100 are part time, 13.6% of the split. The middle across the North West is 7.1%, so Oldham sits above it, 6th of 24 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 Oldham picture: 800 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 600 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Oldham ranks 3rd of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 0.28%, against 0.8% in Oldham. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Oldham in that order sit Warrington at 1.07% and Salford at 0.69%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Oldham ranks 10th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 113, against 125 in Oldham. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Oldham in that order sit Cheshire East at 135 and Rochdale at 120.

That is the size of the courier trade in Oldham, 735 jobs across 130 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.