HGV class 1 driver jobs in Isle of Wight

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 175 employee jobs in it across Isle of Wight, 0.32% of the 54,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Isle of Wight figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 125 warehousing and storage jobs in Isle of Wight, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Isle of Wight was £28,543 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 30 freight transport by road workplaces in Isle of Wight at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 25 of them, 83.3%, 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 Isle of Wight, 45 are part time, 26.5% of the split. The middle across the South East is 23.1%, so Isle of Wight sits above it, 5th of 19 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 Isle of Wight picture: 210 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 510 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Isle of Wight ranks 17th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 1,000, against 175 in Isle of Wight. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Isle of Wight in that order sit Bracknell Forest at 175 and Reading at 150.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Isle of Wight ranks 18th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 225, against 30 in Isle of Wight. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Isle of Wight in that order sit Bracknell Forest at 50 and Brighton and Hove at 15.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 175 jobs and 30 workplaces that already exist in Isle of Wight, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.