HGV class 1 driver jobs in Swindon

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 900 employee jobs in it across Swindon, 0.8% of the 112,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Swindon figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 8,000 warehousing and storage jobs in Swindon, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Swindon was £40,280 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 305 freight transport by road workplaces in Swindon at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. 295 of them, 96.7%, 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 Swindon, 250 are part time, 29.4% of the split. The middle across the South West is 24.4%, so Swindon sits above it, 6th of 14 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 Swindon picture: 355 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 9,255 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Swindon ranks 9th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 1,000, against 900 in Swindon. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Swindon in that order sit North Somerset at 1,000 and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 800.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Swindon ranks 4th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 205, against 305 in Swindon. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Swindon in that order sit Somerset at 340 and Bristol, City of at 265.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 900 jobs and 305 workplaces that already exist in Swindon, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.