Food Delivery Rider (Driver) CV Examples & Writing Guide

A one-page CV for a driver with about seven years of food delivery: a pizzeria job, a takeaway job, and app-based deliveries on the side. The name and businesses are made up. Note how the app work is listed as self-employed with the platform's own statistics, and how every job includes a licence or driving-record line.

Most people reading this page have delivered through an app and are not sure how to write it down. It is real work with real numbers, and the app gives you better statistics than most employees ever get. Write it like this.

1. 1Job title: "Self-employed Delivery Rider" or "Food Delivery Driver (self-employed)". On the main UK platforms riders are self-employed, not employees, and employers know the difference; getting it right shows you understand it too.
2. 2Company line: name the platform or write "app-based food delivery platform", plus your town or city. If you rode for two or three apps at once, list them on one line rather than as separate jobs.
3. 3Dates: month and year you started to month and year you stopped, and "part-time" if it was alongside another job. Overlapping dates with another job are fine; say "alongside" if the overlap is long.
4. 4Numbers from the app: total deliveries completed, customer rating, on-time or completion rate, acceptance rate if it is high, and your usual hours ("dinner window 5 to 10pm, weekends"). Screenshot them before you leave the platform.
5. 5Two or three bullets on how you worked: food handling, stacking orders, communicating with customers, a clean licence or no incidents. Skip earnings; employers do not need them.

A delivery driver CV is read by a restaurant manager, a franchise owner or a small catering company, not an HR department. They are usually a driver short for Friday night. They check four things in under a minute.

• Licence and driving record. Restaurants that use their own drivers usually check your licence online with a DVLA check code, and their insurer sets the rules: often a full licence held for 1 to 2 years or more, no drink-driving or drug-driving convictions, and only a few points, if any. State your record plainly. Age matters too; many insurers set a minimum age for delivery drivers, often 19 or 21.
• Vehicle and insurance. Do you have a reliable car, moped or e-bike, is it insured for food delivery, and will you use it for work? One line in the header answers all three. Platforms and restaurants also check your right to work in the UK and your ID.
• Availability for the rush. Delivery is 5 to 10pm and weekends. "Available evenings, weekends and bank holidays" is the line that gets you called. If you can only work weekday lunches, say that too; some catering and office-delivery jobs want exactly that.
• Proof you handle food and money properly. Insulated bags, sealed orders, checking tickets, cash counted without shortages, and a Level 2 Food Hygiene and Safety certificate if you have one.

“Three things and then a phone call: clean record, own car, works Friday and Saturday nights. If the CV also says 5,000 deliveries at a 4.9 rating, that person starts this weekend.”

The responsibilities are the same everywhere: collect, ride or drive, deliver, take payment. What makes your bullet stand out is the volume, the timing and the result: orders per shift, minutes per delivery, rating, shortages, accidents.

Eight to twelve skills, in the words the advert uses. Employers scan for driving or riding, navigation, food handling, money and customer contact. Anything you cannot show on your first shift does not belong here.

• Driving and riding: safe city and residential driving, night driving, parking in tight spots, an advanced driving course, a clean licence, and e-bike or moped handling in traffic where relevant, following the Highway Code.
• Navigation and planning: smartphone navigation, route planning, batching multiple orders, knowing your delivery area (blocks of flats, new-build estates, office buildings, hospital and university sites).
• Food handling: insulated bags, hot and cold separation, sealed-order procedures, drinks carriers, checking tickets, a Level 2 Food Hygiene and Safety certificate.
• Money and records: cash handling, card readers and tips, end-of-shift cashing up, mileage and expense records for self-employed work.
• Customer contact: clear texts about entry codes and instructions, polite hand-overs, handling wrong-address and no-answer situations without losing the order.
• Reliability: turning up for every scheduled rush, working bank holidays and in bad weather, keeping the vehicle roadworthy, insured and clean.
• Extras that help for restaurant jobs: EPOS order entry, phone orders, boxing and packing, washing up and closing duties, a second language spoken in your area.

Two or three lines at the top. Experienced drivers and riders write a personal statement with deliveries, rating and record. First-time riders write a career objective that leads with licence, vehicle and availability. If you are using delivery experience to move into a warehouse, courier or multi-drop van job, say so in the last line.

• Driving licence: "full UK driving licence (category B)" is all you need for car delivery; say how long you have held it and that it is clean. For a moped up to 125cc you need at least a CBT (compulsory basic training) certificate, which has to be renewed after 2 years unless you pass a full test. An e-bike that meets the electrically assisted pedal cycle rules (motor up to 250 watts, assistance cutting out at 15.5 mph) needs no licence; a faster or throttle-only conversion counts as a motor vehicle.
• Driving record: write "clean licence" or "no points" only if it is true; employers can see your endorsements with a DVLA check code. If you have a few old points, leave the record line off the header and let the check speak.
• Insurance: standard social and commuting cover does not cover food delivery. Restaurants and platforms expect you to hold insurance that does (often sold as food delivery or hire and reward cover), and platforms may add limited cover while you are on a delivery. Write "insured for food delivery" if you are.
• Food hygiene: there is no legal licence for delivery riders, but food businesses must make sure food handlers are trained or supervised to suit their work. A Level 2 Food Hygiene and Safety certificate takes a few hours online and shows you take food safety seriously.
• Advanced driving: an IAM RoadSmart or RoSPA advanced driving course, sometimes taken for a lower insurance premium, is worth one line.
• Do not invent a "delivery rider certificate". None exists in the UK. An HGV (category C) licence or Driver CPC is not needed for food delivery, and listing one you do not hold ends the conversation.

• One page, always. A restaurant manager reads it standing at the counter. Header with licence, vehicle and availability; a two-line personal statement; jobs with three or four bullets each; skills; certificates.
• Plain text layout, no photo, no date of birth. Save as a PDF named Firstname-Lastname-Delivery-Rider.pdf, and bring a printed copy if you apply in person, which is still common for restaurant and takeaway jobs.
• Gaps between jobs are normal in this work and app deliveries fill them well, which is one more reason to list self-employed work with dates.
• Terminology: in the UK, Ireland and much of Europe this job is a food delivery rider (bicycle, e-bike, moped or motorbike) or a delivery driver if you use a car, and the document is a CV; in the US it is a food delivery driver and the document is a resume. The advice on numbers, record and availability is the same.
• Keywords to mirror from adverts: "delivery driver", "delivery rider", "full UK driving licence", "clean licence", "own vehicle", "insured", "customer service", "cash handling", "food hygiene", "evenings and weekends", "navigation", "time management", "punctual".
• Larger chains and delivery companies use application software that scores keyword matches, so paste the advert into the cvplex ATS checker and see which words you have missed before you apply.