HGV class 1 driver jobs in Peterborough

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 1,500 employee jobs in it across Peterborough, 1.27% of the 118,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Peterborough figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 5,000 warehousing and storage jobs in Peterborough, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Peterborough was £36,050 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 Peterborough at the March 2025 reference date, 15 of them employing ten people or more. 560 of them, 97.4%, employ under ten. Artic work here comes from small yards rather than network depots.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Peterborough, 350 are part time, 25.9% of the split. The middle across the East of England is 25%, so Peterborough sits level with it, 4th 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 Peterborough picture: 425 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 6,925 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Peterborough ranks 8th of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 3,000, against 1,500 in Peterborough. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Peterborough in that order sit Central Bedfordshire at 1,750 and Luton at 1,250.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Peterborough ranks 5th of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 500, against 575 in Peterborough. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Peterborough in that order sit Hertfordshire at 695 and Norfolk at 500.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 1,500 jobs and 575 workplaces that already exist in Peterborough, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.