Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Kingston upon Thames

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 70 employee jobs in Kingston upon Thames, 0.09% of the 74,000 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, Kingston upon Thames records 670 employee jobs, 0.91% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 60 postal and courier activities workplaces in Kingston upon Thames 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. 55 of them, 91.7%, 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 Kingston upon Thames, 15 are part time, 18.8% of the split. The middle across London is 13.5%, so Kingston upon Thames sits above it, 5th of 33 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 Kingston upon Thames picture: 500 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 100 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Kingston upon Thames ranks 24th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 0.15%, against 0.09% in Kingston upon Thames. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Kingston upon Thames in that order sit Greenwich at 0.09% and Hackney at 0.07%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Kingston upon Thames ranks 28th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 130, against 55 in Kingston upon Thames. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Kingston upon Thames in that order sit Sutton at 65 and Wandsworth at 50.

That is the size of the courier trade in Kingston upon Thames, 70 jobs across 60 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.