Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Wandsworth

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 65 employee jobs in Wandsworth, 0.05% of the 128,000 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, Wandsworth records 340 employee jobs, 0.27% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 50 postal and courier activities workplaces in Wandsworth at the March 2025 reference date. Every one of them is recorded as employing 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 Wandsworth, 5 are part time, 7.1% of the split. The middle across London is 13.5%, so Wandsworth sits below it, 31st of 33 areas on this measure. Almost all of the split is full time, which is unusual in parcel work and generally means employed rounds rather than self-employed ones.

Two further counts round out the Wandsworth picture: 175 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 100 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Wandsworth ranks 28th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 0.15%, against 0.05% in Wandsworth. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Wandsworth in that order sit Lambeth at 0.05% and Islington at 0.04%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Wandsworth ranks 29th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 130, against 50 in Wandsworth. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Wandsworth in that order sit Kingston upon Thames at 55 and Hammersmith and Fulham at 40.

That is the size of the courier trade in Wandsworth, 65 jobs across 50 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.