Forklift operator jobs in North Northamptonshire

Forklift work is counted inside warehousing and storage, which comes to 7,000 employee jobs in North Northamptonshire, from 150,000 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 6.62% of employment in North Northamptonshire.

Median full-time pay in North Northamptonshire was £35,745 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 115 warehousing and storage sites in North Northamptonshire at the March 2025 reference date, 65 of them employing ten people or more. 50 of them, 43.5%, employ under ten, well below the usual share. Large sites use the full range of truck types, so a ticket beyond counterbalance is worth more here.

Of the warehousing and storage employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in North Northamptonshire, 600 are part time, 9.1% of the split. The middle across the East Midlands is 10.8%, so North Northamptonshire sits below it, 9th of 10 areas on this measure. That is a full-time shift pattern with part-time hours around the edges of it.

Two further counts round out the North Northamptonshire picture: 2,500 employee jobs in freight transport by road, and 425 employee jobs in postal and courier activities.

Measured on employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work, North Northamptonshire ranks 5th of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 8,770, against 9,925 in North Northamptonshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 2,975. Next to North Northamptonshire in that order sit Derbyshire at 14,375 and Lincolnshire at 7,615.

On the separate business register count of warehousing and storage sites, North Northamptonshire ranks 5th of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 110, against 115 in North Northamptonshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 35. Next to North Northamptonshire in that order sit Nottinghamshire at 125 and Lincolnshire at 105.

None of these counts is a vacancy figure. They describe 7,000 jobs across 115 warehousing sites as the surveys found them in North Northamptonshire, and the live list above is what is open now.