7.5 tonne driver jobs in Plymouth

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Plymouth has 20 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 350 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 Plymouth the courier side alone is 0.02% of the 118,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Plymouth, median full-time pay was £36,483 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 145 postal and courier activities workplaces in Plymouth at the March 2025 reference date. Every one of them is recorded as employing 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 Plymouth, 5 are part time, 20% of the split. The middle across the South West is 9.1%, so Plymouth sits above it, 2nd of 15 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 Plymouth picture: 500 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 870 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Plymouth ranks 12th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 130, against 20 in Plymouth. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Plymouth in that order sit North Somerset at 40 and Isles of Scilly at 10.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Plymouth ranks 10th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 160, against 145 in Plymouth. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Plymouth in that order sit North Somerset at 155 and Wiltshire at 115.

Every figure here counts what exists in Plymouth: 20 courier jobs across 145 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.