7.5 tonne driver jobs in Trafford

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Trafford has 360 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 2,000 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 Trafford the courier side alone is 0.22% of the 165,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Trafford, median full-time pay was £38,682 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 85 postal and courier activities workplaces in Trafford at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 80 of them, 94.1%, 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 Trafford, 45 are part time, 11.1% of the split. The middle across the North West is 7.1%, so Trafford sits above it, 7th of 24 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 Trafford picture: 2,250 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 4,610 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Trafford ranks 14th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 398, against 360 in Trafford. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Trafford in that order sit Rochdale at 375 and Bury at 275.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Trafford ranks 20th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 115, against 85 in Trafford. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Trafford in that order sit Blackburn with Darwen at 85 and Bury at 80.

Every figure here counts what exists in Trafford: 360 courier jobs across 85 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.