Forklift operator jobs in East Sussex

Forklift work is counted inside warehousing and storage, which comes to 500 employee jobs in East Sussex, from 186,000 employee jobs across the area.

That count covers whole sites rather than truck types, so counterbalance on the bays, reach in the racking and VNA in the narrow aisles are all inside it, together with the picking most operators also do. Freight, warehousing and courier work together make up 0.78% of employment in East Sussex.

Median full-time pay in East Sussex was £35,557 a year in 2025 across all occupations combined. Forklift work is not published separately at this level, so treat that as area context and read the rate on the advert.

UK Business Counts recorded 60 warehousing and storage sites in East Sussex at the March 2025 reference date, 15 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 50 of them, 83.3%, employ under ten, below the usual share, so there is more reach, VNA and bendi work here than a small-site area carries.

Of the warehousing and storage employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in East Sussex, 100 are part time, 20% of the split. The middle across the South East is 13%, so East Sussex sits above it, 4th of 19 areas on this measure. A part-time share at this level usually means twilight and weekend shifts running alongside the main rota.

Two further counts round out the East Sussex picture: 600 employee jobs in freight transport by road, and 350 employee jobs in postal and courier activities.

Measured on employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work, East Sussex ranks 14th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 2,400, against 1,450 in East Sussex. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 2,975. Next to East Sussex in that order sit Portsmouth at 1,545 and Wokingham at 640.

On the separate business register count of warehousing and storage sites, East Sussex ranks 8th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 25, against 60 in East Sussex. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 35. Next to East Sussex in that order sit Buckinghamshire at 65 and West Berkshire at 35.

None of these counts is a vacancy figure. They describe 500 jobs across 60 warehousing sites as the surveys found them in East Sussex, and the live list above is what is open now.