Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Sefton

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 175 employee jobs in Sefton, 0.2% of the 89,000 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, Sefton records 925 employee jobs, 1.04% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 100 postal and courier activities workplaces in Sefton 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 Sefton, 10 are part time, 5.4% of the split. The middle across the North West is 7.1%, so Sefton sits below it, 15th of 24 areas on this measure. Almost all of the split is full time, which is unusual in parcel work and generally means employed rounds rather than self-employed ones.

Two further counts round out the Sefton picture: 300 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 450 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Sefton ranks 18th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 0.28%, against 0.2% in Sefton. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Sefton in that order sit Trafford at 0.22% and Stockport at 0.19%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Sefton ranks 17th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 113, against 100 in Sefton. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Sefton in that order sit Knowsley at 100 and Halton at 90.

That is the size of the courier trade in Sefton, 175 jobs across 100 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.