Van and multi-drop driver jobs in East Sussex

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 350 employee jobs in East Sussex, 0.19% of the 186,000 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, East Sussex records 1,450 employee jobs, 0.78% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 90 postal and courier activities workplaces in East Sussex at the March 2025 reference date, 0 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 85 of them, 94.4%, employ under ten, and many of those are owner-drivers, so employment status matters more here than the vehicle.

Of the postal and courier activities employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in East Sussex, 65 are part time, 19.1% of the split. The middle across the South East is 14.6%, so East Sussex sits above it, 4th of 19 areas on this measure. Parcel rounds are built around peaks rather than a working week, and a part-time share at this level is the ordinary result.

Two further counts round out the East Sussex picture: 500 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 600 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, East Sussex ranks 15th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 0.36%, against 0.19% in East Sussex. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to East Sussex in that order sit Oxfordshire at 0.27% and Portsmouth at 0.19%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, East Sussex ranks 13th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 155, against 85 in East Sussex. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to East Sussex in that order sit Portsmouth at 100 and Brighton and Hove at 70.

That is the size of the courier trade in East Sussex, 350 jobs across 90 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.