HGV class 1 driver jobs in Essex

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 4,500 employee jobs in it across Essex, 0.73% of the 616,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Essex figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 6,000 warehousing and storage jobs in Essex, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Essex was £38,098 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 1,080 freight transport by road workplaces in Essex at the March 2025 reference date, 100 of them employing ten people or more. 980 of them, 90.7%, employ under ten, which is the ordinary shape of haulage.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Essex, 1,250 are part time, 26.3% of the split. The middle across the East of England is 25%, so Essex sits above it, 3rd of 11 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 Essex picture: 1,825 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 12,325 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Essex ranks 2nd of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 3,000, against 4,500 in Essex. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Essex in that order sit Suffolk at 6,000 and Cambridgeshire at 4,000.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Essex ranks 1st of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 500, against 1,080 in Essex. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Essex in that order sit Suffolk at 1,030.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 4,500 jobs and 1,080 workplaces that already exist in Essex, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.