7.5 tonne driver jobs in North Somerset

C1 rounds straddle two counts. North Somerset has 40 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 1,000 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 North Somerset the courier side alone is 0.04% of the 92,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in North Somerset, median full-time pay was £34,838 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 155 postal and courier activities workplaces in North Somerset 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. 150 of them, 96.8%, 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 North Somerset, 0 are part time, 0% of the split. The middle across the South West is 9.1%, so North Somerset sits below it, 14th of 15 areas on this measure. Almost all of it is full time, which for C1 work usually means a fixed round rather than relief cover.

Two further counts round out the North Somerset picture: 1,500 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 2,540 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, North Somerset ranks 11th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 130, against 40 in North Somerset. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to North Somerset in that order sit Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 80 and Plymouth at 20.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, North Somerset ranks 9th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 160, against 155 in North Somerset. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to North Somerset in that order sit Gloucestershire at 160 and Plymouth at 145.

Every figure here counts what exists in North Somerset: 40 courier jobs across 155 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.