HGV class 1 driver jobs in Southwark

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 150 employee jobs in it across Southwark, 0.05% of the 289,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Southwark figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 400 warehousing and storage jobs in Southwark, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Southwark was £50,000 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 45 freight transport by road workplaces in Southwark at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 40 of them, 88.9%, 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 Southwark, 25 are part time, 16.7% of the split. The middle across London is 20%, so Southwark sits below it, 29th of 33 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 Southwark picture: 540 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 1,090 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Southwark ranks 25th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 250, against 150 in Southwark. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Southwark in that order sit Islington at 150 and City of London at 100.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Southwark ranks 26th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 100, against 45 in Southwark. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Southwark in that order sit Sutton at 50 and Wandsworth at 45.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 150 jobs and 45 workplaces that already exist in Southwark, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.