Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Solihull

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 200 employee jobs in Solihull, 0.14% of the 145,000 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, Solihull records 4,950 employee jobs, 3.41% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 80 postal and courier activities workplaces in Solihull at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 75 of them, 93.8%, 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 Solihull, 15 are part time, 7.9% of the split. The middle across the West Midlands is 8.9%, so Solihull sits level with it, 10th of 14 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 Solihull picture: 3,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 1,750 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Solihull ranks 10th of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 0.21%, against 0.14% in Solihull. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Solihull in that order sit Wolverhampton at 0.16% and Herefordshire, County of at 0.13%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Solihull ranks 11th of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 220, against 75 in Solihull. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Solihull in that order sit Dudley at 115 and Telford and Wrekin at 70.

That is the size of the courier trade in Solihull, 200 jobs across 80 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.