Forklift operator jobs in Milton Keynes

Forklift work is counted inside warehousing and storage, which comes to 10,000 employee jobs in Milton Keynes, from 190,000 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 6.32% of employment in Milton Keynes.

Median full-time pay in Milton Keynes was £41,516 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 80 warehousing and storage sites in Milton Keynes at the March 2025 reference date, 50 of them employing ten people or more. 30 of them, 37.5%, 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 Milton Keynes, 1,750 are part time, 17.9% of the split. The middle across the South East is 13%, so Milton Keynes sits above it, 6th of 19 areas on this measure. A part-time share at this level usually means twilight and weekend shifts running alongside the main rota.

Two further counts round out the Milton Keynes picture: 1,250 employee jobs in freight transport by road, and 750 employee jobs in postal and courier activities.

Measured on employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work, Milton Keynes ranks 3rd of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 2,400, against 12,000 in Milton Keynes. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 2,975. Next to Milton Keynes in that order sit Hampshire at 12,425 and Oxfordshire at 7,800.

On the separate business register count of warehousing and storage sites, Milton Keynes ranks 6th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 25, against 80 in Milton Keynes. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 35. Next to Milton Keynes in that order sit Oxfordshire at 100 and Buckinghamshire at 65.

None of these counts is a vacancy figure. They describe 10,000 jobs across 80 warehousing sites as the surveys found them in Milton Keynes, and the live list above is what is open now.