7.5 tonne driver jobs in Leicestershire

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Leicestershire has 5,050 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 4,500 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 Leicestershire the courier side alone is 1.46% of the 345,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Leicestershire, median full-time pay was £36,208 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 360 postal and courier activities workplaces in Leicestershire at the March 2025 reference date, 20 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 335 of them, 93.1%, 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 Leicestershire, 610 are part time, 10.8% of the split. The middle across the East Midlands is 8.5%, so Leicestershire sits above it, 3rd of 9 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 Leicestershire picture: 17,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 26,550 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Leicestershire ranks 1st of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 400, against 5,050 in Leicestershire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Leicestershire in that order sit West Northamptonshire at 1,275.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Leicestershire ranks 2nd of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 273, against 360 in Leicestershire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Leicestershire in that order sit West Northamptonshire at 530 and Leicester at 300.

Every figure here counts what exists in Leicestershire: 5,050 courier jobs across 360 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.