HGV class 1 driver jobs in Kensington and Chelsea

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 50 employee jobs in it across Kensington and Chelsea, 0.04% of the 124,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Kensington and Chelsea figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 50 warehousing and storage jobs in Kensington and Chelsea, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Kensington and Chelsea was £45,600 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 15 freight transport by road workplaces in Kensington and Chelsea at the March 2025 reference date. Every one of them is recorded as employing 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 Kensington and Chelsea, 10 are part time, 18.2% of the split. The middle across London is 20%, so Kensington and Chelsea sits below it, 25th 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 Kensington and Chelsea picture: 25 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 125 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Kensington and Chelsea ranks 33rd of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 250, against 50 in Kensington and Chelsea. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Kensington and Chelsea in that order sit Hammersmith and Fulham at 50.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Kensington and Chelsea ranks 33rd of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 100, against 15 in Kensington and Chelsea. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Kensington and Chelsea in that order sit City of London at 25.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 50 jobs and 15 workplaces that already exist in Kensington and Chelsea, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.