Forklift operator jobs in Nottingham

Forklift work is counted inside warehousing and storage, which comes to 1,000 employee jobs in Nottingham, from 213,000 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 0.82% of employment in Nottingham.

Median full-time pay in Nottingham was £34,868 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 40 warehousing and storage sites in Nottingham at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 35 of them, 87.5%, 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 Nottingham, 500 are part time, 45.5% of the split. The middle across the East Midlands is 10.8%, so Nottingham sits above it, 1st of 10 areas on this measure. Part-time hours are the larger half of the local split, so check the contracted hours before reading an advertised rate as a full-time wage.

Two further counts round out the Nottingham picture: 500 employee jobs in freight transport by road, and 240 employee jobs in postal and courier activities.

Measured on employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work, Nottingham ranks 8th of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 8,770, against 1,740 in Nottingham. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 2,975. Next to Nottingham in that order sit Leicester at 3,575 and Derby at 1,660.

On the separate business register count of warehousing and storage sites, Nottingham ranks 7th of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 110, against 40 in Nottingham. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 35. Next to Nottingham in that order sit Lincolnshire at 105 and Leicester at 35.

None of these counts is a vacancy figure. They describe 1,000 jobs across 40 warehousing sites as the surveys found them in Nottingham, and the live list above is what is open now.