Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Cumberland

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 675 employee jobs in Cumberland, 0.52% of the 130,000 employee jobs in the area.

Parcel volume follows population and depot placement rather than local industry, so an area with a sorting hub in it carries a count well above its size. Taking freight, warehousing and courier work together, Cumberland records 3,425 employee jobs, 2.63% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 265 postal and courier activities workplaces in Cumberland at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 260 of them, 98.1%, employ under ten. A one-person courier operation is usually an owner-driver, and an owner-driver round is a contract, not a job.

Of the postal and courier activities employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Cumberland, 80 are part time, 10.6% of the split. The middle across the North West is 7.1%, so Cumberland sits above it, 8th of 24 areas on this measure. That is a mostly full-time split, which tends to go with employed rounds on a fixed rota.

Two further counts round out the Cumberland picture: 500 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 2,250 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Cumberland ranks 7th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 0.28%, against 0.52% in Cumberland. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Cumberland in that order sit Knowsley at 0.64% and Rochdale at 0.43%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Cumberland ranks 3rd of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 113, against 260 in Cumberland. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Cumberland in that order sit Manchester at 285 and Liverpool at 260.

That is the size of the courier trade in Cumberland, 675 jobs across 265 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.