Warehouse operative jobs in Dundee City

Warehousing and storage in Dundee City is counted at 350 employee jobs, 0.45% of the 78,000 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 200 freight transport by road jobs in Dundee City are counted separately, and they are the vehicles those sites load.

UK Business Counts recorded 15 warehousing and storage sites in Dundee City 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 Dundee City, 50 are part time, 14.3% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 14.3%, so Dundee City sits level with it, 14th of 31 areas on this measure. That is a full-time shift picture, with part-time hours around weekend and peak cover.

Two further counts round out the Dundee City picture: 415 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 965 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on warehousing and storage, share of all employee jobs, Dundee City ranks 12th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 0.18%, against 0.45% in Dundee City. Next to Dundee City in that order sit Aberdeen City at 0.51% and Highland at 0.38%.

On the separate business register count of warehousing sites employing 10 or more, Dundee City ranks 13th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 0, against 5 in Dundee City. Next to Dundee City in that order sit Clackmannanshire at 5 and North Ayrshire at 5.

The figures describe 350 warehouse jobs across 15 sites that exist in Dundee City. How many are open this week is the live list above.