HGV class 1 driver jobs in Staffordshire

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 7,000 employee jobs in it across Staffordshire, 1.97% of the 356,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Staffordshire figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 13,000 warehousing and storage jobs in Staffordshire, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Staffordshire was £34,532 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 810 freight transport by road workplaces in Staffordshire at the March 2025 reference date, 105 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 710 of them, 87.7%, employ under ten, a lower share than most areas, so more artic work sits with medium fleets running planned trunks.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Staffordshire, 900 are part time, 13% of the split. The middle across the West Midlands is 18.8%, so Staffordshire sits below it, 14th of 14 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 Staffordshire picture: 1,260 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 21,260 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Staffordshire ranks 1st of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 2,000, against 7,000 in Staffordshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Staffordshire in that order sit Warwickshire at 5,000.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Staffordshire ranks 2nd of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 475, against 810 in Staffordshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Staffordshire in that order sit Birmingham at 840 and Warwickshire at 810.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 7,000 jobs and 810 workplaces that already exist in Staffordshire, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.