7.5 tonne driver jobs in East Sussex

C1 rounds straddle two counts. East Sussex has 350 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 600 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 East Sussex the courier side alone is 0.19% of the 186,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in East Sussex, median full-time pay was £35,557 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 90 postal and courier activities workplaces in East Sussex 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. 85 of them, 94.4%, employ under ten. The handful that do not are where C1 rounds are loaded and dispatched.

Of the postal and courier activities employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in East Sussex, 65 are part time, 19.1% of the split. The middle across the South East is 14.6%, so East Sussex sits above it, 4th of 19 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 East Sussex picture: 500 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 1,450 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, East Sussex ranks 12th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 625, against 350 in East Sussex. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to East Sussex in that order sit West Berkshire at 500 and Medway at 350.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, East Sussex ranks 13th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 165, against 90 in East Sussex. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to East Sussex in that order sit Portsmouth at 100 and West Berkshire at 75.

Every figure here counts what exists in East Sussex: 350 courier jobs across 90 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.