Van and multi-drop driver jobs in South Gloucestershire

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 775 employee jobs in South Gloucestershire, 0.46% of the 170,000 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, South Gloucestershire records 10,775 employee jobs, 6.34% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 240 postal and courier activities workplaces in South Gloucestershire at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. 230 of them, 95.8%, 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 South Gloucestershire, 105 are part time, 13.5% of the split. The middle across the South West is 9.1%, so South Gloucestershire sits above it, 3rd 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 South Gloucestershire picture: 8,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 2,000 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, South Gloucestershire ranks 2nd of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 0.09%, against 0.46% in South Gloucestershire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to South Gloucestershire in that order sit Isles of Scilly at 0.8% and Swindon at 0.32%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, South Gloucestershire ranks 6th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 155, against 230 in South Gloucestershire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to South Gloucestershire in that order sit Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 255 and Somerset at 200.

That is the size of the courier trade in South Gloucestershire, 775 jobs across 240 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.