HGV class 1 driver jobs in Portsmouth

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 350 employee jobs in it across Portsmouth, 0.34% of the 104,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

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

Median full-time pay for a job based in Portsmouth was £38,815 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 Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth, 100 are part time, 30.8% of the split. The middle across the South East is 23.1%, so Portsmouth sits above it, 1st of 19 areas on this measure. That is a high part-time share for road freight, and in a local industry this size a handful of jobs moves the proportion a long way.

Two further counts round out the Portsmouth picture: 195 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 1,545 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Portsmouth ranks 12th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 1,000, against 350 in Portsmouth. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Portsmouth in that order sit East Sussex at 600 and West Berkshire at 350.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Portsmouth ranks 16th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 225, against 65 in Portsmouth. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Portsmouth in that order sit Wokingham at 75 and Bracknell Forest at 50.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 350 jobs and 65 workplaces that already exist in Portsmouth, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.