Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Southend-on-Sea

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 20 employee jobs in Southend-on-Sea, 0.03% of the 64,000 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, Southend-on-Sea records 260 employee jobs, 0.41% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 60 postal and courier activities workplaces in Southend-on-Sea 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 Southend-on-Sea, 0 are part time, 0% of the split. The middle across the East of England is 10.3%, so Southend-on-Sea sits below it, 11th of 11 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 Southend-on-Sea picture: 40 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 200 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Southend-on-Sea ranks 11th of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 0.28%, against 0.03% in Southend-on-Sea. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Southend-on-Sea in that order sit Cambridgeshire at 0.1%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Southend-on-Sea ranks 11th of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 290, against 60 in Southend-on-Sea. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Southend-on-Sea in that order sit Bedford at 60.

That is the size of the courier trade in Southend-on-Sea, 20 jobs across 60 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.