HGV and logistics driving in London
7.5 tonne driver jobs in Southwark
Southwark has 540 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, on the most recent business survey. Below are the published figures for the area, and every advert on this site for the role right now.
Search the adverts
Starts from 7.5 tonne driver jobs in Southwark. You can widen it on the next page.
Live adverts
7.5 tonne driver jobs in Southwark
Loading the current adverts.
Open adverts for 7.5 tonne driver jobs in Southwark, as a plain list
Published figures for Southwark
What the official data says about Southwark
C1 rounds straddle two counts. Southwark has 540 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 Southwark the courier side alone is 0.19% of the 289,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.
Across all occupations in Southwark, median full-time pay was £50,000 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 110 postal and courier activities workplaces in Southwark at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. 100 of them, 90.9%, 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 Southwark, 50 are part time, 8.5% of the split. The middle across London is 13.5%, so Southwark sits below it, 29th of 33 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 Southwark picture: 400 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 1,090 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.
Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Southwark ranks 5th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 155, against 540 in Southwark. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Southwark in that order sit Enfield at 745 and Newham at 520.
On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Southwark ranks 21st of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 130, against 110 in Southwark. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Southwark in that order sit Hackney at 115 and Merton at 105.
Every figure here counts what exists in Southwark: 540 courier jobs across 110 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.
- Employee jobs in postal and courier activities
- 540
- Employee jobs in freight transport by road
- 150
- Median full-time pay across all jobs in the area
- £50,000
- Postal and courier workplaces
- 110
- Postal and courier workplaces employing 10 or more
- 10
- Part-time share of postal and courier jobs
- 8.5%
- Postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs
- 0.19%
The 7.5 tonne driver role
A 7.5 tonne rigid on category C1 is the bridge between a van and a lorry. The rounds are local, the drop counts are high and the vehicle is small enough to get down streets an artic could not attempt.
7.5 tonne driver jobs in Southwark: common questions
How big is the logistics sector in Southwark?
The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 150 employee jobs in freight transport by road in Southwark and 400 in warehousing and storage, spread across 175 freight, warehousing and courier workplaces on the 2025 business register. Those are jobs and workplaces that exist in the area, not jobs being advertised.
What does a 7.5 tonne driver earn in Southwark?
There is no published pay figure for this role in Southwark: earnings are not broken down by occupation at local authority level anywhere in the official statistics, so anybody quoting one has estimated it. What is published is the size of the trade here, 110 postal and courier activities workplaces, and each of them sets its own rates. Every advert on this page carries its own rate.
Is 7.5 tonne driver work in Southwark full time or part time?
Part-time hours account for 8.5% of the postal and courier activities jobs counted either way in Southwark, 50 of them. Nothing published says how the live adverts divide, so read the hours on each one.
Do I need experience to apply for 7.5 tonne driver jobs in Southwark?
Category C1 licence. Driver CPC card if you are driving professionally. Digital tachograph card. Each advert in Southwark sets out what that employer asks for.