7.5 tonne driver jobs in Reading

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Reading has 625 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 150 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 Reading the courier side alone is 0.52% of the 121,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Reading, median full-time pay was £49,062 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 150 postal and courier activities workplaces in Reading at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 145 of them, 96.7%, 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 Reading, 80 are part time, 13.3% of the split. The middle across the South East is 14.6%, so Reading sits below it, 14th of 19 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 Reading picture: 2,250 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 3,025 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Reading ranks 10th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 625, against 625 in Reading. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Reading in that order sit Southampton at 650 and West Berkshire at 500.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Reading ranks 11th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 165, against 150 in Reading. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Reading in that order sit Buckinghamshire at 165 and Portsmouth at 100.

Every figure here counts what exists in Reading: 625 courier jobs across 150 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.