Van and multi-drop driver jobs in North Lanarkshire

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 1,300 employee jobs in North Lanarkshire, 0.99% of the 131,000 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, North Lanarkshire records 8,300 employee jobs, 6.34% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 290 postal and courier activities workplaces in North Lanarkshire at the March 2025 reference date, 15 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 270 of them, 93.1%, 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 North Lanarkshire, 190 are part time, 15.5% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 18.9%, so North Lanarkshire sits below it, 19th of 28 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 North Lanarkshire picture: 5,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 2,000 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, North Lanarkshire ranks 1st of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 0.1%, against 0.99% in North Lanarkshire. Next to North Lanarkshire in that order sit Dundee City at 0.53%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, North Lanarkshire ranks 2nd of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 38, against 270 in North Lanarkshire. Next to North Lanarkshire in that order sit Glasgow City at 325 and South Lanarkshire at 200.

That is the size of the courier trade in North Lanarkshire, 1,300 jobs across 290 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.