7.5 tonne driver jobs in Scottish Borders

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Scottish Borders has 10 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 200 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 Scottish Borders the courier side alone is 0.02% of the 43,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Scottish Borders, median full-time pay was £32,164 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 15 postal and courier activities workplaces in Scottish Borders 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.

Two further counts round out the Scottish Borders picture: 75 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 285 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Scottish Borders ranks 28th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 50, against 10 in Scottish Borders. Next to Scottish Borders in that order sit East Lothian at 10 and Clackmannanshire at 5.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Scottish Borders ranks 28th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 38, against 15 in Scottish Borders. Next to Scottish Borders in that order sit Moray at 15 and South Ayrshire at 15.

Every figure here counts what exists in Scottish Borders: 10 courier jobs across 15 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.