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Delivery driving is the most customer-facing job in logistics and the one where the round makes all the difference. WSUK tells you the drop count, the vehicle and whether it is residential or business before you accept — and pays weekly through PAYE, not self-employment.
Delivery driver jobs are multi-drop roles on vans up to 3.5 tonnes (category B car licence, no CPC needed) or 7.5 tonne vehicles (category C1, CPC and tacho card required). The work covers parcel and courier rounds, home delivery of furniture and appliances, and replenishment runs to stores. Drop counts range from around a dozen on business rounds to well over a hundred on parcel work. WSUK places delivery drivers across the UK at £12.71—£15.00 an hour, paid weekly through PAYE rather than as self-employment, and it never costs you anything to apply.
WSUK operates from the Midlands Golden Triangle, framed by the M1, M6, M42 and A14 and home to mega distribution parks and rail-freight interchanges including DIRFT, Magna Park, East Midlands Gateway and Prologis Park Ryton. National retailers, parcel carriers and 3PLs run round-the-clock trunking, multi-drop and store-delivery operations from these sites, with driving demand that swings sharply through the year.
That is why employers need to fill temporary driving jobs at short notice — peak retail, contract wins, sickness and holidays. WSUK supplies Class 1, Class 2 and 7.5t HGV drivers plus van and multi-drop drivers, scaling teams up and down and managing vetting, DVLA licence and CPC checks, right-to-work, PAYE payroll and tachograph and working-time compliance.
The vehicle matters less than the round. These three shapes cover most delivery work and they make for very different days.
High-volume home delivery on a fixed round, scanning at each stop, with the usual complications of access, parking and nobody being in. Fast and measured.
Furniture, appliances and bulky goods, usually as a two-person crew, often into the room of choice. Fewer drops, booked time slots, much more handling.
Replenishment to shops, branches and trade counters with cages or totes on a tail-lift. Regular routes, regular contacts, business hours.
From our Golden Triangle base we fill temporary driving jobs for employers UK-wide, reaching the major logistics parks — DIRFT, Magna Park, East Midlands Gateway, Fradley Park, i54 and Brackmills — via the M1, M6, M42, M69 and A14. From one shift to an ongoing run, we match vetted, licence-checked drivers to your vehicles and routes.
A great deal of delivery work in the UK is offered as self-employment, where you carry the fuel, the insurance, the van rental and the tax admin, and an advertised daily rate turns into much less once those come out. Every delivery role WSUK places is PAYE: an hourly rate, paid weekly, with holiday pay accrued and the vehicle and fuel provided. It is worth comparing an hourly PAYE rate against a self-employed day rate carefully before you take either.
Indicative PAYE rates as a guide — actual pay varies by shift, experience and site, with premiums for nights, weekends and bank holidays. Every rate we advertise is at or above the National Living Wage.
| Role | Indicative pay |
|---|---|
| Multi-Drop Van Driver | £12.71–£14.00 / hr |
| Parcel Courier (fixed round) | £12.71–£14.00 / hr |
| Home Delivery (2-person crew) | £12.71–£14.25 / hr |
| 7.5t (C1) Delivery Driver | £13.00–£15.00 / hr |
| Delivery Driver (nights) | £13.25–£14.75 / hr |
Delivery work suits people who would rather be out on their own round than on a warehouse floor, and who want to be employed rather than self-employed.
The two things that decide whether a delivery job is any good are the drop count and whether you are actually employed. We are straight about both.
From application to your first shift, with the checks and the payroll handled for you.
Tell us your licence, tickets and which shifts you can actually work.
A named consultant calls within 2 working hours to talk through what fits.
Right-to-work, references and the site induction handled before you start.
Start on shift, then paid weekly through PAYE with holiday accrued.
For vans up to 3.5 tonnes, a standard category B car licence is enough and no Driver CPC or tachograph card is needed. For a 7.5 tonne vehicle you need category C1 plus a Driver CPC and a digital tachograph card.
No. Every delivery role we place is PAYE — an hourly rate paid weekly with holiday pay accrued, and the vehicle, fuel and insurance provided. Much of the delivery market is offered as self-employment, which pushes those costs onto the driver.
Residential parcel rounds commonly run 50—120 stops. Home delivery of furniture or appliances might be 10—20 because each takes far longer. Store and business rounds usually sit somewhere between. We tell you the realistic number for a specific round before you accept it.
It varies with the round. Parcel work means constant in-and-out of the van and a lot of walking; home delivery of appliances and furniture is genuinely heavy and normally done as a two-person crew; store delivery is mostly cages on a tail-lift. We will tell you which kind a round is.
Not for the roles we place — the vehicle, fuel and insurance are provided and you are paid an hourly rate. Owner-driver work exists in the wider market but it moves the costs and the risk onto you, so compare the numbers carefully.
Beyond our Golden Triangle base, WSUK supplies temporary HGV and van drivers to employers at the UK's major regional logistics hubs. Choose a region, then an area for local information.
Greater Manchester is the North West's main logistics hub, where the M60, M62 and M56 meet the Manchester Ship Canal, rail freight terminals at Trafford Park and Port Salford, and Manchester Airport's cargo operation.
Bristol and Severnside combine two deep-sea docks, the M4/M5 crossroads and one of the largest concentrations of big-box warehousing in the South West, from Avonmouth and Portbury to the aerospace cluster around Filton.
Stretching from London Stansted and the M11 along the A120 and A12 corridors to the ferry port at Harwich, this part of Essex and east Hertfordshire links air freight, sea freight and busy industrial estates.
Medway and north Kent line the Thames and Medway estuaries between the M25 and the Swale, combining working ports at Sheerness, Thamesport and Tilbury with M2, A2 and A249 industrial estates serving London and the South East.
The south bank of the Humber combines the UK's busiest port complex by tonnage at Grimsby and Immingham with refineries, Freeport land, food processing and steel, all tied together by the M180 and A180.
We serve employers across the UK's Golden Triangle and beyond. Choose your area for local information.
Tell us your licence and where you are. We will tell you the round, the drop count and the rate before you commit. Reply within 2 working hours.