Van and multi-drop driver jobs in West Northamptonshire

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 1,275 employee jobs in West Northamptonshire, 0.59% of the 216,000 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, West Northamptonshire records 18,775 employee jobs, 8.69% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 530 postal and courier activities workplaces in West Northamptonshire at the March 2025 reference date, 20 of them employing ten people or more. 510 of them, 96.2%, employ 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 West Northamptonshire, 125 are part time, 8.9% of the split. The middle across the East Midlands is 8.5%, so West Northamptonshire sits level with it, 4th of 9 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 West Northamptonshire picture: 14,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 3,500 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, West Northamptonshire ranks 2nd of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 0.16%, against 0.59% in West Northamptonshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to West Northamptonshire in that order sit Leicestershire at 1.46% and Leicester at 0.33%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, West Northamptonshire ranks 1st of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 263, against 510 in West Northamptonshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to West Northamptonshire in that order sit Leicestershire at 335.

That is the size of the courier trade in West Northamptonshire, 1,275 jobs across 530 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.