HGV class 1 driver jobs in Wakefield

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 Wakefield, 1.22% of the 164,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Wakefield figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 13,000 warehousing and storage jobs in Wakefield, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Wakefield was £35,838 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 355 freight transport by road workplaces in Wakefield at the March 2025 reference date, 40 of them employing ten people or more. 315 of them, 88.7%, 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 Wakefield, 300 are part time, 14.6% of the split. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 13%, so Wakefield sits above it, 6th of 15 areas on this measure. That is the shape most artic drivers would expect: full-time work with part-time hours around the edges.

Two further counts round out the Wakefield picture: 525 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 15,525 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Wakefield ranks 4th of the 15 areas in Yorkshire and The Humber. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 1,250, against 2,000 in Wakefield. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Wakefield in that order sit North Lincolnshire at 2,000 and East Riding of Yorkshire at 1,750.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Wakefield ranks 5th of the 15 areas in Yorkshire and The Humber. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 295, against 355 in Wakefield. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Wakefield in that order sit North Lincolnshire at 355 and North East Lincolnshire at 330.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 2,000 jobs and 355 workplaces that already exist in Wakefield, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.