Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Tameside

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 85 employee jobs in Tameside, 0.12% of the 70,000 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, Tameside records 885 employee jobs, 1.26% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 110 postal and courier activities workplaces in Tameside at the March 2025 reference date. Every one of them is recorded as employing 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 Tameside, 25 are part time, 22.7% of the split. The middle across the North West is 7.1%, so Tameside sits above it, 3rd of 24 areas on this measure. Parcel rounds are built around peaks rather than a working week, and a part-time share at this level is the ordinary result.

Two further counts round out the Tameside picture: 200 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 600 employee jobs in freight transport by road.

Measured on postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs, Tameside ranks 22nd of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 0.28%, against 0.12% in Tameside. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Tameside in that order sit Westmorland and Furness at 0.14% and Blackpool at 0.11%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Tameside ranks 14th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 113, against 110 in Tameside. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Tameside in that order sit St. Helens at 110 and Wirral at 105.

That is the size of the courier trade in Tameside, 85 jobs across 110 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.