Forklift operator jobs in Suffolk

Forklift work is counted inside warehousing and storage, which comes to 4,000 employee jobs in Suffolk, from 339,000 employee jobs across the area.

That count covers whole sites rather than truck types, so counterbalance on the bays, reach in the racking and VNA in the narrow aisles are all inside it, together with the picking most operators also do. Freight, warehousing and courier work together make up 3.13% of employment in Suffolk.

Median full-time pay in Suffolk was £36,891 a year in 2025 across all occupations combined. Forklift work is not published separately at this level, so treat that as area context and read the rate on the advert.

UK Business Counts recorded 155 warehousing and storage sites in Suffolk at the March 2025 reference date, 55 of them employing ten people or more. 100 of them, 64.5%, employ under ten, well below the usual share. Large sites use the full range of truck types, so a ticket beyond counterbalance is worth more here.

Of the warehousing and storage employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Suffolk, 400 are part time, 10.3% of the split. The middle across the East of England is 12.2%, so Suffolk sits below it, 9th of 11 areas on this measure. That is a full-time shift pattern with part-time hours around the edges of it.

Two further counts round out the Suffolk picture: 6,000 employee jobs in freight transport by road, and 625 employee jobs in postal and courier activities.

Measured on employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work, Suffolk ranks 4th of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 6,925, against 10,625 in Suffolk. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 2,975. Next to Suffolk in that order sit Hertfordshire at 12,300 and Central Bedfordshire at 9,060.

On the separate business register count of warehousing and storage sites, Suffolk ranks 3rd of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 65, against 155 in Suffolk. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 35. Next to Suffolk in that order sit Hertfordshire at 165 and Cambridgeshire at 115.

None of these counts is a vacancy figure. They describe 4,000 jobs across 155 warehousing sites as the surveys found them in Suffolk, and the live list above is what is open now.