HGV class 1 driver jobs in Kent

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 6,000 employee jobs in it across Kent, 0.92% of the 650,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Kent figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 12,000 warehousing and storage jobs in Kent, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Kent was £36,127 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 1,305 freight transport by road workplaces in Kent at the March 2025 reference date, 115 of them employing ten people or more. 1,190 of them, 91.2%, 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 Kent, 1,250 are part time, 21.7% of the split. The middle across the South East is 23.1%, so Kent sits below it, 12th 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 Kent picture: 3,400 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 21,400 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

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

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

None of this counts adverts. It counts 6,000 jobs and 1,305 workplaces that already exist in Kent, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.