HGV class 1 driver jobs in Stockport

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 600 employee jobs in it across Stockport, 0.44% of the 136,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Stockport figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 150 warehousing and storage jobs in Stockport, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Stockport was £35,406 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 85 freight transport by road workplaces in Stockport 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. 75 of them, 88.2%, 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 Stockport, 100 are part time, 18.2% of the split. The middle across the North West is 15.8%, so Stockport sits above it, 7th 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 Stockport picture: 260 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 1,010 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Stockport ranks 17th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 900, against 600 in Stockport. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Stockport in that order sit Oldham at 600 and Tameside at 600.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Stockport ranks 21st of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 148, against 85 in Stockport. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Stockport in that order sit Bury at 105 and Wirral at 70.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 600 jobs and 85 workplaces that already exist in Stockport, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.