Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Wigan

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 725 employee jobs in Wigan, 0.66% of the 110,000 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, Wigan records 3,475 employee jobs, 3.16% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 220 postal and courier activities workplaces in Wigan 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. 215 of them, 97.7%, 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 Wigan, 45 are part time, 6.7% of the split. The middle across the North West is 7.1%, so Wigan sits level with it, 14th of 24 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 Wigan picture: 1,250 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 1,500 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Wigan ranks 5th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 0.28%, against 0.66% in Wigan. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Wigan in that order sit Salford at 0.69% and Knowsley at 0.64%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Wigan ranks 5th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 113, against 215 in Wigan. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Wigan in that order sit Liverpool at 260 and Warrington at 205.

That is the size of the courier trade in Wigan, 725 jobs across 220 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.