Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Kirklees

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 370 employee jobs in Kirklees, 0.23% of the 162,000 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, Kirklees records 3,620 employee jobs, 2.23% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 215 postal and courier activities workplaces in Kirklees 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. 210 of them, 97.7%, 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 Kirklees, 55 are part time, 15.1% of the split. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 26.2%, so Kirklees sits below it, 14th of 15 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 Kirklees picture: 2,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 1,250 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Kirklees ranks 4th of the 15 areas in Yorkshire and The Humber. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 0.15%, against 0.23% in Kirklees. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Kirklees in that order sit Leeds at 0.31% and Barnsley at 0.21%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Kirklees ranks 6th of the 15 areas in Yorkshire and The Humber. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 175, against 210 in Kirklees. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Kirklees in that order sit Bradford at 215 and Hull at 190.

That is the size of the courier trade in Kirklees, 370 jobs across 215 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.