Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Portsmouth

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 195 employee jobs in Portsmouth, 0.19% of the 104,000 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, Portsmouth records 1,545 employee jobs, 1.49% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 100 postal and courier activities workplaces in Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth, 25 are part time, 12.8% of the split. The middle across the South East is 14.6%, so Portsmouth sits below it, 16th of 19 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 Portsmouth picture: 1,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 350 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Portsmouth ranks 16th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 0.36%, against 0.19% in Portsmouth. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Portsmouth in that order sit East Sussex at 0.19% and Wokingham at 0.16%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Portsmouth ranks 12th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 155, against 100 in Portsmouth. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Portsmouth in that order sit Reading at 145 and East Sussex at 85.

That is the size of the courier trade in Portsmouth, 195 jobs across 100 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.