7.5 tonne driver jobs in Kingston upon Thames

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Kingston upon Thames has 70 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 100 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 Kingston upon Thames the courier side alone is 0.09% of the 74,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Kingston upon Thames, median full-time pay was £42,346 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 60 postal and courier activities workplaces in Kingston upon Thames 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. 55 of them, 91.7%, 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 Kingston upon Thames, 15 are part time, 18.8% of the split. The middle across London is 13.5%, so Kingston upon Thames sits above it, 5th of 33 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 Kingston upon Thames picture: 500 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 670 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Kingston upon Thames ranks 29th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 155, against 70 in Kingston upon Thames. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Kingston upon Thames in that order sit Greenwich at 80 and Wandsworth at 65.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Kingston upon Thames ranks 28th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 130, against 60 in Kingston upon Thames. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Kingston upon Thames in that order sit Sutton at 70 and Wandsworth at 50.

Every figure here counts what exists in Kingston upon Thames: 70 courier jobs across 60 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.