Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Surrey

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 1,900 employee jobs in Surrey, 0.33% of the 570,000 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, Surrey records 7,650 employee jobs, 1.34% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 385 postal and courier activities workplaces in Surrey at the March 2025 reference date, 25 of them employing ten people or more. 360 of them, 93.5%, 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 Surrey, 275 are part time, 14.5% of the split. The middle across the South East is 14.6%, so Surrey sits level with it, 11th of 19 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 Surrey picture: 3,500 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, Surrey ranks 11th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 0.36%, against 0.33% in Surrey. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Surrey in that order sit Medway at 0.36% and Hampshire at 0.31%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Surrey ranks 4th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 155, against 360 in Surrey. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Surrey in that order sit West Sussex at 395 and Oxfordshire at 295.

That is the size of the courier trade in Surrey, 1,900 jobs across 385 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.