HGV class 1 driver jobs in Swansea

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 300 employee jobs in it across Swansea, 0.28% of the 108,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Swansea figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 350 warehousing and storage jobs in Swansea, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Swansea was £36,261 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 75 freight transport by road workplaces in Swansea at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. 65 of them, 86.7%, 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 Swansea, 100 are part time, 36.4% of the split. The middle across Wales is 35.7%, so Swansea sits level with it, 10th of 22 areas on this measure. That is a high part-time share for road freight, and in a local industry this size a handful of jobs moves the proportion a long way.

Two further counts round out the Swansea picture: 185 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 835 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Swansea ranks 13th of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 325, against 300 in Swansea. Next to Swansea in that order sit Neath Port Talbot at 300 and Monmouthshire at 250.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Swansea ranks 11th of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 70, against 75 in Swansea. Next to Swansea in that order sit Monmouthshire at 75 and Denbighshire at 65.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 300 jobs and 75 workplaces that already exist in Swansea, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.