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Food Delivery (Deliveroo, Uber Eats, Just Eat)

Ride or drive when it suits you
5
Setup steps
3
AI prompts
5
Tools & links

What it is

Delivering takeaways by bike, scooter or car through apps. You choose your hours, but you are self-employed: you pay for your own vehicle, fuel, insurance and tax, so what you keep depends heavily on your costs.

Watch this first

The ultimate UK Uber Eats delivery guide

Step by step

  1. 1

    Check you can work

    You need the right to work in the UK, a smartphone and a suitable vehicle. Cars and motorbikes need the right insurance for delivery work (often called hire and reward).

  2. 2

    Sign up to more than one app

    Apps pay differently by area and time. Having two or three gives you more orders and less waiting around.

  3. 3

    Work the busy times

    Lunch, evenings and weekends have the most orders and the best boosts. Pick areas with lots of restaurants close together.

  4. 4

    Know your real hourly rate

    Advertised averages are about £10–£13 an hour of busy time before costs. Subtract fuel, insurance, repairs and tax to see what you actually keep.

  5. 5

    Track miles and tax

    Self-employed drivers can claim simplified mileage (55p a mile for the first 10,000 miles in 2026/27 for cars, 24p for motorbikes). Tell HMRC if your income is over £1,000.

AI prompts to try

Copy one of these into ChatGPT, Claude or your AI tool of choice and adapt it to your situation.

Real earnings
“I earned £[GROSS] over [HOURS] hours doing food delivery. Fuel was £[FUEL], insurance is £[INSURANCE] a month and I covered [MILES] miles. Work out my real hourly rate after costs and simplified mileage tax relief in the UK.”
Plan a shift
“Plan a delivery shift for [CITY]: the best times, which areas to wait in, and how to combine two apps without breaking their rules.”
Tax basics
“Explain in plain English what tax I owe as a self-employed food delivery rider in the UK, when to register for Self Assessment, and what costs I can claim.”

Get help setting it up

Hand the fiddly setup to a freelancer on Fiverr and start earning sooner.

Useful links

Deliveroo riders↗Uber Eats couriers↗Just Eat couriers↗Gov.uk: simplified expenses for vehicles↗Gov.uk: trading allowance↗
Started? Run it from one place

A free OddSync account gives you a booking page, quotes and invoices sent as a link, and a running tax estimate for your side hustle.

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