HGV class 1 driver jobs in Sheffield

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 800 employee jobs in it across Sheffield, 0.3% of the 267,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Sheffield figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 2,250 warehousing and storage jobs in Sheffield, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Sheffield was £37,074 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 250 freight transport by road workplaces in Sheffield at the March 2025 reference date, 15 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 230 of them, 92%, 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 Sheffield, 125 are part time, 17.2% of the split. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 13%, so Sheffield sits above it, 2nd of 15 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 Sheffield picture: 425 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 3,475 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Sheffield ranks 12th of the 15 areas in Yorkshire and The Humber. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 1,250, against 800 in Sheffield. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Sheffield in that order sit Hull at 800 and Rotherham at 700.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Sheffield ranks 11th of the 15 areas in Yorkshire and The Humber. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 295, against 250 in Sheffield. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Sheffield in that order sit Barnsley at 270 and Rotherham at 235.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 800 jobs and 250 workplaces that already exist in Sheffield, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.