7.5 tonne driver jobs in West Sussex

C1 rounds straddle two counts. West Sussex has 1,950 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 1,750 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 West Sussex the courier side alone is 0.5% of the 389,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in West Sussex, median full-time pay was £37,916 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 420 postal and courier activities workplaces in West Sussex at the March 2025 reference date, 20 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 395 of them, 94%, 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 West Sussex, 255 are part time, 11.8% of the split. The middle across the South East is 14.6%, so West Sussex sits below it, 17th 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 West Sussex picture: 3,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 6,700 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, West Sussex ranks 3rd of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 625, against 1,950 in West Sussex. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to West Sussex in that order sit Kent at 3,400 and Hampshire at 1,925.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, West Sussex ranks 3rd of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 165, against 420 in West Sussex. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to West Sussex in that order sit Hampshire at 430 and Surrey at 385.

Every figure here counts what exists in West Sussex: 1,950 courier jobs across 420 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.