HGV class 1 driver jobs in Hampshire

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 3,500 employee jobs in it across Hampshire, 0.57% 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 Hampshire figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 7,000 warehousing and storage jobs in Hampshire, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Hampshire was £39,324 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 685 freight transport by road workplaces in Hampshire at the March 2025 reference date, 70 of them employing ten people or more. 615 of them, 89.8%, 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 Hampshire, 700 are part time, 18.9% of the split. The middle across the South East is 23.1%, so Hampshire sits below it, 15th 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 Hampshire picture: 1,925 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 12,425 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Hampshire ranks 2nd of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 1,000, against 3,500 in Hampshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Hampshire in that order sit Kent at 6,000 and Surrey at 2,250.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Hampshire ranks 2nd of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 225, against 685 in Hampshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Hampshire in that order sit Kent at 1,305 and Surrey at 475.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 3,500 jobs and 685 workplaces that already exist in Hampshire, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.