Van and multi-drop driver jobs in Trafford

Multi-drop van work sits squarely inside postal and courier activities, counted at 360 employee jobs in Trafford, 0.22% of the 165,000 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, Trafford records 4,610 employee jobs, 2.79% of everything counted locally.

UK Business Counts recorded 85 postal and courier activities workplaces in Trafford at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 80 of them, 94.1%, 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 Trafford, 45 are part time, 11.1% of the split. The middle across the North West is 7.1%, so Trafford sits above it, 7th of 24 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 Trafford picture: 2,250 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, Trafford ranks 17th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 0.28%, against 0.22% in Trafford. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.19%. Next to Trafford in that order sit Lancashire at 0.24% and Sefton at 0.2%.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces employing under 10, Trafford ranks 21st of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 113, against 80 in Trafford. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 145. Next to Trafford in that order sit Bury at 80 and Blackpool at 60.

That is the size of the courier trade in Trafford, 360 jobs across 85 workplaces, not a count of rounds going spare. Live adverts are listed above and nowhere else on the page.