Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Somerset

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 305 employee jobs in Somerset, 0.13% of the 244,000 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, Somerset records 6,305 employee jobs, 2.58% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 205 postal and courier activities workplaces in Somerset at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 200 of them, 97.6%, 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 Somerset, 30 are part time, 9.1% of the split. The middle across the South West is 9.1%, so Somerset sits level with it, 9th of 15 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 Somerset picture: 3,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 3,000 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Somerset ranks 6th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 0.09%, against 0.13% in Somerset. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Somerset in that order sit Bristol, City of at 0.15% and Gloucestershire at 0.12%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Somerset ranks 7th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 155, against 200 in Somerset. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Somerset in that order sit South Gloucestershire at 230 and Gloucestershire at 155.

That is the size of the courier trade in Somerset, 305 jobs across 205 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.