HGV class 1 driver jobs in Edinburgh

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 300 employee jobs in it across Edinburgh, 0.08% of the 368,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Edinburgh figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 600 warehousing and storage jobs in Edinburgh, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Edinburgh was £43,715 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 65 freight transport by road workplaces in Edinburgh at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 55 of them, 84.6%, employ under ten, a lower share than most areas, so more artic work sits with medium fleets running planned trunks.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Edinburgh, 50 are part time, 16.7% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 19.5%, so Edinburgh sits below it, 23rd of 32 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 Edinburgh picture: 605 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 1,505 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Edinburgh ranks 15th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 250, against 300 in Edinburgh. Next to Edinburgh in that order sit Angus at 350 and East Ayrshire at 250.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Edinburgh ranks 11th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 40, against 65 in Edinburgh. Next to Edinburgh in that order sit Falkirk at 80 and Perth and Kinross at 60.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 300 jobs and 65 workplaces that already exist in Edinburgh, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.