Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Stockton-on-Tees

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 360 employee jobs in Stockton-on-Tees, 0.43% of the 84,000 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, Stockton-on-Tees records 5,110 employee jobs, 6.08% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 55 postal and courier activities workplaces in Stockton-on-Tees at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 50 of them, 90.9%, employ under ten, and many of those are owner-drivers, so employment status matters more here than the vehicle.

Of the postal and courier activities employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Stockton-on-Tees, 210 are part time, 62.7% of the split. The middle across the North East is 71.8%, so Stockton-on-Tees sits below it, 8th of 12 areas on this measure. Part-time hours outweigh full-time ones in the local split. Ask what a round actually pays across a full week before reading an advertised day rate as a wage.

Two further counts round out the Stockton-on-Tees picture: 2,500 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 2,250 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Stockton-on-Tees ranks 3rd of the 12 areas in the North East. The middle across the North East is 0.13%, against 0.43% in Stockton-on-Tees. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Stockton-on-Tees in that order sit Gateshead at 0.54% and County Durham at 0.25%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Stockton-on-Tees ranks 8th of the 12 areas in the North East. The middle across the North East is 93, against 50 in Stockton-on-Tees. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Stockton-on-Tees in that order sit Northumberland at 85 and Middlesbrough at 40.

That is the size of the courier trade in Stockton-on-Tees, 360 jobs across 55 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.