HGV class 1 driver jobs in West Northamptonshire

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 3,500 employee jobs in it across West Northamptonshire, 1.62% of the 216,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the West Northamptonshire figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 14,000 warehousing and storage jobs in West Northamptonshire, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in West Northamptonshire was £38,313 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 770 freight transport by road workplaces in West Northamptonshire at the March 2025 reference date, 50 of them employing ten people or more. 720 of them, 93.5%, 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 West Northamptonshire, 600 are part time, 16.7% of the split. The middle across the East Midlands is 20.3%, so West Northamptonshire sits below it, 9th of 10 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 West Northamptonshire picture: 1,275 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 18,775 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, West Northamptonshire ranks 5th of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 3,000, against 3,500 in West Northamptonshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to West Northamptonshire in that order sit Nottinghamshire at 4,000 and North Northamptonshire at 2,500.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, West Northamptonshire ranks 2nd of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 598, against 770 in West Northamptonshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to West Northamptonshire in that order sit Lincolnshire at 1,025 and Leicestershire at 720.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 3,500 jobs and 770 workplaces that already exist in West Northamptonshire, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.