Van and multi-drop driver jobs in North Somerset

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 40 employee jobs in North Somerset, 0.04% of the 92,000 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 Somerset records 2,540 employee jobs, 2.76% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 155 postal and courier activities workplaces in North Somerset 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. 150 of them, 96.8%, 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 North Somerset, 0 are part time, 0% of the split. The middle across the South West is 9.1%, so North Somerset sits below it, 14th of 15 areas on this measure. Almost all of the split is full time, which is unusual in parcel work and generally means employed rounds rather than self-employed ones.

Two further counts round out the North Somerset picture: 1,500 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 1,000 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, North Somerset ranks 12th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 0.09%, against 0.04% in North Somerset. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to North Somerset in that order sit Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 0.04% and Plymouth at 0.02%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, North Somerset ranks 9th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 155, against 150 in North Somerset. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to North Somerset in that order sit Gloucestershire at 155 and Plymouth at 145.

That is the size of the courier trade in North Somerset, 40 jobs across 155 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.