Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Nottingham

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 240 employee jobs in Nottingham, 0.11% of the 213,000 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, Nottingham records 1,740 employee jobs, 0.82% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 195 postal and courier activities workplaces in Nottingham at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 190 of them, 97.4%, 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 Nottingham, 5 are part time, 2% of the split. The middle across the East Midlands is 8.5%, so Nottingham sits below it, 9th of 9 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 Nottingham picture: 1,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 500 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Nottingham ranks 8th of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 0.16%, against 0.11% in Nottingham. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Nottingham in that order sit Lincolnshire at 0.12% and Derby at 0.04%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Nottingham ranks 8th of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 263, against 190 in Nottingham. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Nottingham in that order sit Derbyshire at 220 and Derby at 150.

That is the size of the courier trade in Nottingham, 240 jobs across 195 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.