Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Perth and Kinross

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 50 employee jobs in Perth and Kinross, 0.08% of the 65,000 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, Perth and Kinross records 350 employee jobs, 0.54% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 45 postal and courier activities workplaces in Perth and Kinross at the March 2025 reference date. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 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 Perth and Kinross, 25 are part time, 38.5% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 18.9%, so Perth and Kinross sits above it, 2nd of 28 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 Perth and Kinross picture: 50 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 250 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Perth and Kinross ranks 19th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 0.1%, against 0.08% in Perth and Kinross. Next to Perth and Kinross in that order sit Dumfries and Galloway at 0.09% and East Dunbartonshire at 0.07%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Perth and Kinross ranks 15th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 38, against 45 in Perth and Kinross. Next to Perth and Kinross in that order sit Angus at 45 and North Ayrshire at 40.

That is the size of the courier trade in Perth and Kinross, 50 jobs across 45 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.