HGV class 1 driver jobs in Medway

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 Medway, 1.02% of the 98,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Medway figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 900 warehousing and storage jobs in Medway, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Medway was £37,128 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 225 freight transport by road workplaces in Medway at the March 2025 reference date, 15 of them employing ten people or more. 210 of them, 93.3%, 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 Medway, 200 are part time, 20% of the split. The middle across the South East is 23.1%, so Medway sits below it, 13th 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 Medway picture: 350 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 2,250 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Medway ranks 10th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 1,000, against 1,000 in Medway. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Medway in that order sit Buckinghamshire at 1,000 and East Sussex at 600.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Medway ranks 10th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 225, against 225 in Medway. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Medway in that order sit Milton Keynes at 285 and East Sussex at 120.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 1,000 jobs and 225 workplaces that already exist in Medway, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.