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Warehouse operative jobs in Staffordshire
Staffordshire has 13,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, on the most recent business survey. Below are the published figures for the area, and every advert on this site for the role right now.
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Published figures for Staffordshire
What the official data says about Staffordshire
Warehousing and storage in Staffordshire is counted at 13,000 employee jobs, 3.65% of the 356,000 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 7,000 freight transport by road jobs in Staffordshire are counted separately, and they are the vehicles those sites load.
UK Business Counts recorded 180 warehousing and storage sites in Staffordshire at the March 2025 reference date, 80 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 95 of them, 52.8%, 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 Staffordshire, 1,750 are part time, 13.7% of the split. The middle across the West Midlands is 12.4%, so Staffordshire sits above it, 6th of 14 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 Staffordshire picture: 1,260 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 21,260 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.
Measured on warehousing and storage, share of all employee jobs, Staffordshire ranks 2nd of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 1.82%, against 3.65% in Staffordshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 0.87%. Next to Staffordshire in that order sit Stoke-on-Trent at 4.03% and Warwickshire at 3.65%.
On the separate business register count of warehousing sites employing 10 or more, Staffordshire ranks 2nd of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 18, against 80 in Staffordshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 10. Next to Staffordshire in that order sit Warwickshire at 85 and Birmingham at 45.
The figures describe 13,000 warehouse jobs across 180 sites that exist in Staffordshire. How many are open this week is the live list above.
- Employee jobs in warehousing and storage
- 13,000
- Warehousing and storage, share of all employee jobs
- 3.65%
- Employee jobs in freight transport by road
- 7,000
- Warehousing and storage sites
- 180
- Warehousing sites employing 10 or more
- 80
- Part-time employee jobs in warehousing and storage
- 1,750
- Employee jobs in the area, all industries
- 356,000
The warehouse operative role
Warehouse work is picking, packing, loading and putting stock away, usually against a rate and usually on shifts. Voice picking, scanners and pick-to-light all measure what you do, and the rate is the job.
Warehouse operative jobs in Staffordshire: common questions
How big is the logistics sector in Staffordshire?
The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 7,000 employee jobs in freight transport by road in Staffordshire and 13,000 in warehousing and storage, spread across 1,290 freight, warehousing and courier workplaces on the 2025 business register. Those are jobs and workplaces that exist in the area, not jobs being advertised.
What does a warehouse operative earn in Staffordshire?
There is no published pay figure for this role in Staffordshire: earnings are not broken down by occupation at local authority level anywhere in the official statistics, so anybody quoting one has estimated it. What is published is the size of the trade here, 180 warehousing and storage sites, and each of them sets its own rates. Every advert on this page carries its own rate.
Is warehouse operative work in Staffordshire full time or part time?
Part-time hours account for 13.7% of the warehousing and storage jobs counted either way in Staffordshire, 1,750 of them. Nothing published says how the live adverts divide, so read the hours on each one.
Do I need experience to apply for warehouse operative jobs in Staffordshire?
No formal qualifications needed to apply. Comfortable on your feet for a full shift. Some sites ask for a counterbalance or reach ticket, some train you. Each advert in Staffordshire sets out what that employer asks for.