Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Scottish Borders

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 10 employee jobs in Scottish Borders, 0.02% of the 43,000 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, Scottish Borders records 285 employee jobs, 0.66% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 15 postal and courier activities workplaces in Scottish Borders 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.

Two further counts round out the Scottish Borders picture: 75 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 200 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Scottish Borders ranks 29th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 0.1%, against 0.02% in Scottish Borders. Next to Scottish Borders in that order sit South Ayrshire at 0.03% and Inverclyde at 0%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Scottish Borders ranks 26th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 38, against 15 in Scottish Borders. Next to Scottish Borders in that order sit Moray at 15 and South Ayrshire at 15.

That is the size of the courier trade in Scottish Borders, 10 jobs across 15 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.