Warehouse operative jobs in South Ayrshire

Warehousing and storage in South Ayrshire is counted at 50 employee jobs, 0.11% of the 46,000 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 175 freight transport by road jobs in South Ayrshire are counted separately, and they are the vehicles those sites load.

UK Business Counts recorded 10 warehousing and storage sites in South Ayrshire at the March 2025 reference date, 0 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 5 of them, 50%, 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 South Ayrshire, 10 are part time, 20% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 14.3%, so South Ayrshire sits above it, 8th of 31 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 South Ayrshire picture: 15 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 240 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on warehousing and storage, share of all employee jobs, South Ayrshire ranks 23rd of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 0.18%, against 0.11% in South Ayrshire. Next to South Ayrshire in that order sit Dumfries and Galloway at 0.13% and West Dunbartonshire at 0.1%.

On the separate business register count of warehousing sites employing 10 or more, South Ayrshire ranks 30th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 0, against 0 in South Ayrshire. Next to South Ayrshire in that order sit Shetland Islands at 0 and Stirling at 0.

The figures describe 50 warehouse jobs across 10 sites that exist in South Ayrshire. How many are open this week is the live list above.