Part Time Delivery Jobs Near You, Across the UK

Which type of work you pick moves the number more than which employer you pick, though the employer is not noise either: among supermarkets alone, advertised rates run from about £13.10 an hour at Asda to £16.04 at Sainsbury’s central London stores. Employed roles pay a guaranteed hourly rate for your contracted hours, with the National Living Wage as the floor underneath. Gig apps pay per delivery instead, so an hourly figure is an outcome rather than a rate: it depends on how many deliveries you complete, how busy your area is and what time you are online. On any self-employed work, subtract fuel, insurance, vehicle wear and a tax reserve before you compare it with an employed hourly rate.

Yes, and it is one of the most common reasons people start. If you are employed full-time elsewhere, gig apps give you the most room, whether that is a couple of evenings or just Saturdays, and takeaway delivery sits in the evenings anyway. Contracted part-time shifts work too if you can find a rota that fits. Two things to watch. Your personal allowance applies across your total income, so delivery earnings stack on top of your main job rather than getting an allowance of their own. And if you claim Universal Credit, self-employed income is assessed differently from employed income, so check your entitlement before you start. Keep records for both jobs.

No, and for several of the options a car is not even an advantage. Bicycle and e-bike delivery needs no licence, no fuel and no insurance of your own, which makes it the cheapest way in by a distance, though it is limited by distance and by British weather. Gig apps take bikes, e-bikes, mopeds and cars depending on the app and the city. Supermarket home delivery provides the van and the insurance, so you need no vehicle at all: worth weighing properly, because it removes a standing annual cost that gig work does not. Parcel and courier rounds usually do need your own vehicle. Takeaway delivery is split, with some branches providing a vehicle and others expecting you to use yours.

Yes, and this is where part-time delivery is at its strongest. Gig apps give you exact control, so 6pm to 9pm on weekdays plus all day Saturday is an entirely ordinary way to work. Takeaway and pizza delivery is inherently evening and weekend work because it follows trading hours. Supermarket shifts are frequently advertised as evening or weekend slots specifically, and they can pay more for them: Tesco has advertised part-time weekend delivery rotas from £14.22 up to £16.57 an hour depending on the shift pattern. Parcel rounds are the least likely to fit an evenings-only pattern, since most parcel volume moves during the day. So it is very achievable, but you have to search for it deliberately rather than assume any part-time role will offer it.

The law and the platforms give different answers, and the platforms are the binding constraint. They are stricter than the law: Deliveroo requires riders to be 18 or over with no exceptions, and Uber Eats asks for 18 on a bicycle and 19 on a motorised vehicle. So the big apps are not a route in for under 18s, whatever your licence says. The law is more permissive, allowing a bicycle at any age, a moped from 16 and a car or van from 17, but that only helps where somebody will actually take you on. At 16 or 17 the realistic option is an employed local role, a takeaway or a shop, and working time limits then apply: 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week, a 30 minute break after 4.5 hours, and normally no work between 10pm and 6am.

It varies by platform, and the label on your contract does not settle what you are entitled to. Start with what is settled. Supermarket home delivery and most takeaway delivery roles are employed, with guaranteed hourly pay, pro-rata holiday pay and statutory benefits. Amazon Flex drivers are self-employed. Parcel work splits between employed contracted shifts and self-employed rounds. The food apps are where it is genuinely unsettled, and two Supreme Court rulings show why. In February 2021 the court held in Uber BV v Aslam that Uber drivers were workers, entitled to the minimum wage and paid holiday, because Uber exercised significant control over how they worked. In November 2023 it held that Deliveroo riders were not in an employment relationship at all, and so had no trade union collective bargaining rights, the deciding factor being that riders are not obliged to be available and can send a substitute in their place. So self-employed does not mean the same thing on every app. Ask how you will be classified before you apply, because the difference in rights, pay security and tax responsibility is significant.

If you are employed, tax and National Insurance come off through PAYE and there is nothing for you to file. If you are self-employed, which covers most gig app work, you pay tax on your profit. The first £1,000 of self-employed income in a tax year is covered by the trading allowance, and once you go over it you have to register for Self Assessment and file a return. From that point you choose either the £1,000 allowance or your actual expenses, not both. Actual expenses means fuel, hire and reward insurance, vehicle maintenance and repairs, and phone costs. Your personal allowance, currently £12,570, applies across all your income, so delivery earnings sit on top of any main job. One trap worth knowing if you claim Universal Credit: after a 12 month start-up grace period, DWP applies a Minimum Income Floor and assumes you earn at least the equivalent of 35 hours a week at the National Living Wage, whatever you actually made. That can reduce your payment even in a quiet month, so check your entitlement before you start.

On employed part-time contracts, yes. Statutory holiday is 5.6 weeks a year, pro-rated to the hours you actually work, so a 16 hour week accrues proportionally rather than being excluded. Tesco, for one, advertises holiday accruing at 12.07% on its part-time delivery rotas. You also become eligible for pension auto-enrolment once you meet the earnings and age thresholds, and employed roles carry sick pay rights. On genuinely self-employed gig work there is none of that: no statutory holiday pay, no pension auto-enrolment, no sick pay, and no minimum wage underneath a quiet week. Worker status, as established for Uber drivers in 2021, sits between the two and can carry some entitlements. It is the part of flexibility that is easiest to underestimate, and worth pricing in when a self-employed headline rate looks better than an employed hourly one.