Forklift operator jobs in West Berkshire

Forklift work is counted inside warehousing and storage, which comes to 1,250 employee jobs in West Berkshire, from 104,000 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 2.02% of employment in West Berkshire.

Median full-time pay in West Berkshire was £42,135 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 35 warehousing and storage sites in West Berkshire at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 25 of them, 71.4%, 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 West Berkshire, 150 are part time, 13% of the split. The middle across the South East is 13%, so West Berkshire sits level with it, 12th of 19 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 West Berkshire picture: 350 employee jobs in freight transport by road, and 500 employee jobs in postal and courier activities.

Measured on employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work, West Berkshire ranks 12th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 2,400, against 2,100 in West Berkshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 2,975. Next to West Berkshire in that order sit Medway at 2,250 and Portsmouth at 1,545.

On the separate business register count of warehousing and storage sites, West Berkshire ranks 9th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 25, against 35 in West Berkshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 35. Next to West Berkshire in that order sit East Sussex at 60 and Medway at 25.

None of these counts is a vacancy figure. They describe 1,250 jobs across 35 warehousing sites as the surveys found them in West Berkshire, and the live list above is what is open now.