Warehouse operative jobs in Wrexham

Warehousing and storage in Wrexham is counted at 250 employee jobs, 0.42% of the 60,000 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 500 freight transport by road jobs in Wrexham are counted separately, and they are the vehicles those sites load.

UK Business Counts recorded 20 warehousing and storage sites in Wrexham at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 15 of them, 75%, 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 Wrexham, 25 are part time, 10% of the split. The middle across Wales is 14.5%, so Wrexham sits below it, 18th of 22 areas on this measure. That is a full-time shift picture, with part-time hours around weekend and peak cover.

Two further counts round out the Wrexham picture: 40 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 790 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on warehousing and storage, share of all employee jobs, Wrexham ranks 11th of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 0.38%, against 0.42% in Wrexham. Next to Wrexham in that order sit Vale of Glamorgan at 0.42% and Merthyr Tydfil at 0.33%.

On the separate business register count of warehousing sites employing 10 or more, Wrexham ranks 14th of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 5, against 5 in Wrexham. Next to Wrexham in that order sit Torfaen at 5 and Carmarthenshire at 0.

The figures describe 250 warehouse jobs across 20 sites that exist in Wrexham. How many are open this week is the live list above.