HGV class 1 driver jobs in Aberdeen City

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 1,000 employee jobs in it across Aberdeen City, 0.63% of the 158,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Aberdeen City figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 800 warehousing and storage jobs in Aberdeen City, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Aberdeen City was £43,719 a year in 2025, across every occupation in the area together. It is not a driving figure, and no local driving figure is published anywhere, because earnings are not broken down by occupation at this level.

UK Business Counts recorded 80 freight transport by road workplaces in Aberdeen City at the March 2025 reference date, 20 of them employing ten people or more. 60 of them, 75%, employ under ten, well below the usual shape of the trade. Artic work in Aberdeen City is concentrated in larger fleets, and larger fleets bring planners and set shifts.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Aberdeen City, 225 are part time, 20% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 19.5%, so Aberdeen City sits level with it, 14th of 32 areas on this measure. A part-time share that size usually reflects weekend trunking and relief cover counted alongside the permanent fleet.

Two further counts round out the Aberdeen City picture: 165 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 1,965 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Aberdeen City ranks 4th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 250, against 1,000 in Aberdeen City. Next to Aberdeen City in that order sit South Lanarkshire at 1,250 and Falkirk at 1,000.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Aberdeen City ranks 9th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 40, against 80 in Aberdeen City. Next to Aberdeen City in that order sit Fife at 100 and Falkirk at 80.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 1,000 jobs and 80 workplaces that already exist in Aberdeen City, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.