HGV class 1 driver jobs in Manchester

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 800 employee jobs in it across Manchester, 0.18% of the 453,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Manchester figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 2,500 warehousing and storage jobs in Manchester, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Manchester was £40,479 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 200 freight transport by road workplaces in Manchester at the March 2025 reference date, 15 of them employing ten people or more. 185 of them, 92.5%, employ under ten, which is the ordinary shape of haulage.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Manchester, 125 are part time, 17.2% of the split. The middle across the North West is 15.8%, so Manchester sits above it, 9th of 24 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 Manchester picture: 825 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 4,125 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Manchester ranks 15th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 900, against 800 in Manchester. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Manchester in that order sit Salford at 900 and Oldham at 600.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Manchester ranks 7th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 148, against 200 in Manchester. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Manchester in that order sit Liverpool at 200 and Halton at 170.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 800 jobs and 200 workplaces that already exist in Manchester, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.