HGV class 1 driver jobs in North Northamptonshire

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 2,500 employee jobs in it across North Northamptonshire, 1.67% of the 150,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the North Northamptonshire figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 7,000 warehousing and storage jobs in North Northamptonshire, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in North Northamptonshire was £35,745 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 575 freight transport by road workplaces in North Northamptonshire at the March 2025 reference date, 55 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 525 of them, 91.3%, 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 North Northamptonshire, 400 are part time, 15.1% of the split. The middle across the East Midlands is 20.3%, so North Northamptonshire sits below it, 10th of 10 areas on this measure. That is the shape most artic drivers would expect: full-time work with part-time hours around the edges.

Two further counts round out the North Northamptonshire picture: 425 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 9,925 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, North Northamptonshire ranks 6th of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 3,000, against 2,500 in North Northamptonshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to North Northamptonshire in that order sit West Northamptonshire at 3,500 and Leicester at 2,000.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, North Northamptonshire ranks 6th of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 598, against 575 in North Northamptonshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to North Northamptonshire in that order sit Nottinghamshire at 620 and Leicester at 405.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 2,500 jobs and 575 workplaces that already exist in North Northamptonshire, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.