Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Staffordshire

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 1,260 employee jobs in Staffordshire, 0.35% of the 356,000 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, Staffordshire records 21,260 employee jobs, 5.97% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 300 postal and courier activities workplaces in Staffordshire at the March 2025 reference date, 15 of them employing ten people or more. 285 of them, 95%, 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 Staffordshire, 150 are part time, 10.6% of the split. The middle across the West Midlands is 8.9%, so Staffordshire sits above it, 4th of 14 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 Staffordshire picture: 13,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 7,000 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Staffordshire ranks 6th of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 0.21%, against 0.35% in Staffordshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Staffordshire in that order sit Stoke-on-Trent at 0.5% and Worcestershire at 0.24%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Staffordshire ranks 5th of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 220, against 285 in Staffordshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Staffordshire in that order sit Stoke-on-Trent at 295 and Warwickshire at 270.

That is the size of the courier trade in Staffordshire, 1,260 jobs across 300 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.