7.5 tonne driver jobs in Gloucestershire

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Gloucestershire has 360 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 1,750 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 Gloucestershire the courier side alone is 0.12% of the 306,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Gloucestershire, median full-time pay was £37,598 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 Gloucestershire at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 155 of them, 96.9%, 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 Gloucestershire, 35 are part time, 10.1% of the split. The middle across the South West is 9.1%, so Gloucestershire sits above it, 7th of 15 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 Gloucestershire picture: 1,500 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 3,610 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Gloucestershire ranks 4th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 130, against 360 in Gloucestershire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Gloucestershire in that order sit Bristol, City of at 450 and Swindon at 355.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Gloucestershire ranks 8th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 160, against 160 in Gloucestershire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Gloucestershire in that order sit Somerset at 205 and North Somerset at 155.

Every figure here counts what exists in Gloucestershire: 360 courier jobs across 160 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.