Warehouse operative jobs in Shetland Islands

Warehousing and storage in Shetland Islands is counted at 200 employee jobs, 1.54% of the 13,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Picking and packing sit inside that count, along with goods in, stock control and shift management, because the survey counts sites rather than tasks. The 150 freight transport by road jobs in Shetland Islands are counted separately, and they are the vehicles those sites load.

UK Business Counts recorded 5 warehousing and storage sites in Shetland Islands 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. 0 of them, 0%, employ under ten, well below the usual share. Warehousing that shape is built on big sheds, and big sheds mean four on four off, twilights and nights.

Of the warehousing and storage employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Shetland Islands, 0 are part time, 0% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 14.3%, so Shetland Islands sits below it, 31st of 31 areas on this measure. The split is almost entirely full time, which usually points to sites running fixed shift patterns rather than flexible cover.

Two further counts round out the Shetland Islands picture: 0 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 350 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on warehousing and storage, share of all employee jobs, Shetland Islands ranks 6th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 0.18%, against 1.54% in Shetland Islands. Next to Shetland Islands in that order sit Falkirk at 2.11% and Renfrewshire at 1.18%.

On the separate business register count of warehousing sites employing 10 or more, Shetland Islands ranks 29th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 0, against 0 in Shetland Islands. Next to Shetland Islands in that order sit Scottish Borders at 0 and South Ayrshire at 0.

The figures describe 200 warehouse jobs across 5 sites that exist in Shetland Islands. How many are open this week is the live list above.