Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Wiltshire

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 130 employee jobs in Wiltshire, 0.06% of the 212,000 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, Wiltshire records 3,880 employee jobs, 1.83% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 115 postal and courier activities workplaces in Wiltshire at the March 2025 reference date. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 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 Wiltshire, 10 are part time, 8.7% of the split. The middle across the South West is 9.1%, so Wiltshire sits level with it, 10th of 15 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 Wiltshire 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, Wiltshire ranks 10th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 0.09%, against 0.06% in Wiltshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Wiltshire in that order sit Dorset at 0.09% and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 0.04%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Wiltshire ranks 11th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 155, against 115 in Wiltshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Wiltshire in that order sit Plymouth at 145 and Dorset at 70.

That is the size of the courier trade in Wiltshire, 130 jobs across 115 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.