HGV class 1 driver jobs in South Gloucestershire

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 2,000 employee jobs in it across South Gloucestershire, 1.18% of the 170,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the South Gloucestershire figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 8,000 warehousing and storage jobs in South Gloucestershire, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in South Gloucestershire was £42,267 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 240 freight transport by road workplaces in South Gloucestershire at the March 2025 reference date, 30 of them employing ten people or more. 210 of them, 87.5%, 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 South Gloucestershire, 350 are part time, 16.7% of the split. The middle across the South West is 24.4%, so South Gloucestershire sits below it, 13th of 14 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 South Gloucestershire picture: 775 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 10,775 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, South Gloucestershire ranks 3rd of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 1,000, against 2,000 in South Gloucestershire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to South Gloucestershire in that order sit Somerset at 3,000 and Bristol, City of at 1,750.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, South Gloucestershire ranks 6th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 205, against 240 in South Gloucestershire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to South Gloucestershire in that order sit Bristol, City of at 265 and Wiltshire at 225.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 2,000 jobs and 240 workplaces that already exist in South Gloucestershire, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.