Van and multi-drop driver jobs in South Tyneside

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 410 employee jobs in South Tyneside, 1% of the 41,000 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 Tyneside records 1,260 employee jobs, 3.07% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 110 postal and courier activities workplaces in South Tyneside at the March 2025 reference date, 0 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 105 of them, 95.5%, 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 Tyneside, 110 are part time, 26.8% of the split. The middle across the North East is 71.8%, so South Tyneside sits below it, 12th of 12 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 Tyneside picture: 450 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 400 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, South Tyneside ranks 1st of the 12 areas in the North East. The middle across the North East is 0.13%, against 1% in South Tyneside. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to South Tyneside in that order sit Gateshead at 0.54%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, South Tyneside ranks 5th of the 12 areas in the North East. The middle across the North East is 93, against 105 in South Tyneside. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to South Tyneside in that order sit Gateshead at 120 and North Tyneside at 100.

That is the size of the courier trade in South Tyneside, 410 jobs across 110 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.