7.5 tonne driver jobs in Cardiff

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Cardiff has 365 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 350 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 Cardiff the courier side alone is 0.16% of the 227,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Cardiff, median full-time pay was £38,225 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 160 postal and courier activities workplaces in Cardiff at the March 2025 reference date. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. Every one of them is recorded as employing 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 Cardiff, 60 are part time, 19% of the split. The middle across Wales is 23.1%, so Cardiff sits below it, 10th of 17 areas on this measure. Courier work carries more part-time hours than haulage, and a share around this level is the ordinary result of evening and weekend rounds.

Two further counts round out the Cardiff picture: 400 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 1,115 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Cardiff ranks 1st of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 40, against 365 in Cardiff. Next to Cardiff in that order sit Bridgend at 300.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Cardiff ranks 1st of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 48, against 160 in Cardiff. Next to Cardiff in that order sit Swansea at 145.

Every figure here counts what exists in Cardiff: 365 courier jobs across 160 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.