HGV class 1 driver jobs in Warwickshire

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 5,000 employee jobs in it across Warwickshire, 1.52% of the 329,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Warwickshire figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 12,000 warehousing and storage jobs in Warwickshire, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Warwickshire was £40,536 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 810 freight transport by road workplaces in Warwickshire at the March 2025 reference date, 65 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 740 of them, 91.4%, 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 Warwickshire, 800 are part time, 15.1% of the split. The middle across the West Midlands is 18.8%, so Warwickshire sits below it, 12th of 14 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 Warwickshire picture: 4,520 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 21,520 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Warwickshire ranks 2nd of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 2,000, against 5,000 in Warwickshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Warwickshire in that order sit Staffordshire at 7,000 and Stoke-on-Trent at 4,000.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Warwickshire ranks 3rd of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 475, against 810 in Warwickshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Warwickshire in that order sit Staffordshire at 810 and Sandwell at 765.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 5,000 jobs and 810 workplaces that already exist in Warwickshire, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.