7.5 tonne driver jobs in Thurrock

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Thurrock has 475 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 4,000 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 Thurrock the courier side alone is 0.6% of the 79,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Thurrock, median full-time pay was £40,623 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 160 postal and courier activities workplaces in Thurrock 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. 155 of them, 96.9%, 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 Thurrock, 35 are part time, 6.9% of the split. The middle across the East of England is 10.3%, so Thurrock sits below it, 8th of 11 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 Thurrock picture: 10,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 14,475 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Thurrock ranks 5th of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 425, against 475 in Thurrock. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Thurrock in that order sit Suffolk at 625 and Luton at 425.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Thurrock ranks 8th of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 295, against 160 in Thurrock. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Thurrock in that order sit Cambridgeshire at 215 and Central Bedfordshire at 145.

Every figure here counts what exists in Thurrock: 475 courier jobs across 160 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.