HGV class 1 driver jobs in Brighton and Hove

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 50 employee jobs in it across Brighton and Hove, 0.03% of the 146,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Brighton and Hove figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 150 warehousing and storage jobs in Brighton and Hove, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Brighton and Hove was £39,137 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 15 freight transport by road workplaces in Brighton and Hove at the March 2025 reference date. Every one of them is recorded as employing under ten. Artic work here comes from small yards rather than network depots.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Brighton and Hove, 15 are part time, 27.3% of the split. The middle across the South East is 23.1%, so Brighton and Hove sits above it, 3rd of 19 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 Brighton and Hove picture: 90 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 290 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Brighton and Hove ranks 19th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 1,000, against 50 in Brighton and Hove. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Brighton and Hove in that order sit Reading at 150.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Brighton and Hove ranks 19th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 225, against 15 in Brighton and Hove. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Brighton and Hove in that order sit Isle of Wight at 30.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 50 jobs and 15 workplaces that already exist in Brighton and Hove, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.