Van and multi-drop driver jobs in South Lanarkshire

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 275 employee jobs in South Lanarkshire, 0.24% of the 117,000 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 Lanarkshire records 2,775 employee jobs, 2.37% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 205 postal and courier activities workplaces in South Lanarkshire 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 South Lanarkshire, 85 are part time, 27.9% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 18.9%, so South Lanarkshire sits above it, 9th of 28 areas on this measure. Parcel rounds are built around peaks rather than a working week, and a part-time share at this level is the ordinary result.

Two further counts round out the South Lanarkshire picture: 1,250 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 1,250 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, South Lanarkshire ranks 6th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 0.1%, against 0.24% in South Lanarkshire. Next to South Lanarkshire in that order sit Renfrewshire at 0.3% and Highland at 0.23%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, South Lanarkshire ranks 3rd of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 38, against 200 in South Lanarkshire. Next to South Lanarkshire in that order sit North Lanarkshire at 270 and West Lothian at 200.

That is the size of the courier trade in South Lanarkshire, 275 jobs across 205 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.