HGV class 1 driver jobs in Croydon

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 225 employee jobs in it across Croydon, 0.19% of the 121,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Croydon figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 1,000 warehousing and storage jobs in Croydon, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Croydon was £40,033 a year in 2025, across every occupation in the area together. It is not a driving figure, and no local driving figure is published anywhere, because earnings are not broken down by occupation at this level.

UK Business Counts recorded 125 freight transport by road workplaces in Croydon at the March 2025 reference date, 0 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 120 of them, 96%, employ under ten. Artic work here comes from small yards rather than network depots.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Croydon, 45 are part time, 20.5% of the split. The middle across London is 20%, so Croydon sits level with it, 14th of 33 areas on this measure. A part-time share that size usually reflects weekend trunking and relief cover counted alongside the permanent fleet.

Two further counts round out the Croydon picture: 215 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 1,440 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Croydon ranks 18th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 250, against 225 in Croydon. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Croydon in that order sit Westminster at 250 and Merton at 225.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Croydon ranks 15th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 100, against 125 in Croydon. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Croydon in that order sit Bexley at 170 and Hackney at 120.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 225 jobs and 125 workplaces that already exist in Croydon, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.