Warehouse operative jobs in Bath and North East Somerset

Warehousing and storage in Bath and North East Somerset is counted at 100 employee jobs, 0.1% of the 97,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Picking and packing sit inside that count, along with goods in, stock control and shift management, because the survey counts sites rather than tasks. The 350 freight transport by road jobs in Bath and North East Somerset are counted separately, and they are the vehicles those sites load.

UK Business Counts recorded 15 warehousing and storage sites in Bath and North East Somerset at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 10 of them, 66.7%, employ under ten, well below the usual share. Warehousing that shape is built on big sheds, and big sheds mean four on four off, twilights and nights.

Of the warehousing and storage employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Bath and North East Somerset, 25 are part time, 25% of the split. The middle across the South West is 16.3%, so Bath and North East Somerset sits above it, 3rd of 14 areas on this measure. Warehousing carries real part-time hours in most areas, and a share at this level generally means twilight and weekend shifts alongside the core rota.

Two further counts round out the Bath and North East Somerset picture: 5 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 455 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on warehousing and storage, share of all employee jobs, Bath and North East Somerset ranks 14th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 0.49%, against 0.1% in Bath and North East Somerset. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.87%. Next to Bath and North East Somerset in that order sit Torbay at 0.16% and Isles of Scilly at 0%.

On the separate business register count of warehousing sites employing 10 or more, Bath and North East Somerset ranks 11th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 20, against 5 in Bath and North East Somerset. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 10. Next to Bath and North East Somerset in that order sit North Somerset at 10 and Dorset at 5.

The figures describe 100 warehouse jobs across 15 sites that exist in Bath and North East Somerset. How many are open this week is the live list above.