Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Telford and Wrekin

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 105 employee jobs in Telford and Wrekin, 0.12% of the 91,000 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, Telford and Wrekin records 3,855 employee jobs, 4.24% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 75 postal and courier activities workplaces in Telford and Wrekin 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. 70 of them, 93.3%, 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 Telford and Wrekin, 10 are part time, 8.7% of the split. The middle across the West Midlands is 8.9%, so Telford and Wrekin sits level with it, 8th 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 Telford and Wrekin picture: 2,500 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 1,250 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Telford and Wrekin ranks 13th of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 0.21%, against 0.12% in Telford and Wrekin. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Telford and Wrekin in that order sit Shropshire at 0.13% and Dudley at 0.09%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Telford and Wrekin ranks 12th of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 220, against 70 in Telford and Wrekin. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Telford and Wrekin in that order sit Solihull at 75 and Herefordshire, County of at 45.

That is the size of the courier trade in Telford and Wrekin, 105 jobs across 75 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.