Van and multi-drop driver jobs in West Sussex

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 1,950 employee jobs in West Sussex, 0.5% of the 389,000 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 Sussex records 6,700 employee jobs, 1.72% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 420 postal and courier activities workplaces in West Sussex at the March 2025 reference date, 20 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 395 of them, 94%, 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 West Sussex, 255 are part time, 11.8% of the split. The middle across the South East is 14.6%, so West Sussex sits below it, 17th 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 West Sussex picture: 3,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 1,750 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, West Sussex ranks 5th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 0.36%, against 0.5% in West Sussex. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to West Sussex in that order sit Reading at 0.52% and West Berkshire at 0.48%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, West Sussex ranks 3rd of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 155, against 395 in West Sussex. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to West Sussex in that order sit Hampshire at 405 and Surrey at 360.

That is the size of the courier trade in West Sussex, 1,950 jobs across 420 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.