Warehouse operative jobs in Aberdeenshire

Warehousing and storage in Aberdeenshire is counted at 600 employee jobs, 0.59% of the 102,000 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 700 freight transport by road jobs in Aberdeenshire are counted separately, and they are the vehicles those sites load.

UK Business Counts recorded 40 warehousing and storage sites in Aberdeenshire at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. 30 of them, 75%, 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 Aberdeenshire, 75 are part time, 13% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 14.3%, so Aberdeenshire sits below it, 17th 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 Aberdeenshire picture: 105 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 1,405 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on warehousing and storage, share of all employee jobs, Aberdeenshire ranks 9th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 0.18%, against 0.59% in Aberdeenshire. Next to Aberdeenshire in that order sit South Lanarkshire at 1.07% and North Ayrshire at 0.55%.

On the separate business register count of warehousing sites employing 10 or more, Aberdeenshire ranks 7th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 0, against 10 in Aberdeenshire. Next to Aberdeenshire in that order sit South Lanarkshire at 15 and Edinburgh at 10.

The figures describe 600 warehouse jobs across 40 sites that exist in Aberdeenshire. How many are open this week is the live list above.