7.5 tonne driver jobs in Barking and Dagenham

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Barking and Dagenham has 425 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 800 in freight transport by road, and 7.5 tonne work is run out of both.

Parcel and wholesale operations are where most C1 rounds sit. In Barking and Dagenham the courier side alone is 0.72% of the 59,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Barking and Dagenham, median full-time pay was £39,599 a year in 2025. That is the whole local labour market rather than this job, and there is no published local figure for this job to set beside it.

UK Business Counts recorded 180 postal and courier activities workplaces in Barking and Dagenham at the March 2025 reference date, 0 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 175 of them, 97.2%, employ under ten. C1 rounds run out of the few depots, not the long tail.

Of the postal and courier activities employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Barking and Dagenham, 55 are part time, 14.5% of the split. The middle across London is 13.5%, so Barking and Dagenham sits above it, 11th of 33 areas on this measure. That is a full-time shape, with part-time hours sitting mostly in evening and weekend parcel work.

Two further counts round out the Barking and Dagenham picture: 1,250 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 2,475 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Barking and Dagenham ranks 9th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 155, against 425 in Barking and Dagenham. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Barking and Dagenham in that order sit Ealing at 480 and Brent at 385.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Barking and Dagenham ranks 9th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 130, against 180 in Barking and Dagenham. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Barking and Dagenham in that order sit Hounslow at 195 and Redbridge at 180.

Every figure here counts what exists in Barking and Dagenham: 425 courier jobs across 180 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.