Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Stirling

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 65 employee jobs in Stirling, 0.14% of the 46,000 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, Stirling records 355 employee jobs, 0.77% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 20 postal and courier activities workplaces in Stirling 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. 15 of them, 75%, employ under ten, well below the usual courier share. That points to depot-based parcel work rather than a long tail of owner-drivers, and depot rounds are more often employed.

Of the postal and courier activities employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Stirling, 25 are part time, 33.3% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 18.9%, so Stirling sits above it, 4th of 28 areas on this measure. A part-time share this size is normal in multi-drop, where evening and weekend rounds are a large part of the work.

Two further counts round out the Stirling picture: 40 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 250 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Stirling ranks 11th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 0.1%, against 0.14% in Stirling. Next to Stirling in that order sit Midlothian at 0.14% and Moray at 0.11%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Stirling ranks 28th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 38, against 15 in Stirling. Next to Stirling in that order sit South Ayrshire at 15 and Argyll and Bute at 10.

That is the size of the courier trade in Stirling, 65 jobs across 20 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.