7.5 tonne driver jobs in Birmingham

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Birmingham has 1,075 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 3,500 in freight transport by road, and 7.5 tonne work is run out of both.

Parcel and wholesale operations are where most C1 rounds sit. In Birmingham the courier side alone is 0.19% of the 560,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Birmingham, median full-time pay was £38,556 a year in 2025. That is the whole local labour market rather than this job, and there is no published local figure for this job to set beside it.

UK Business Counts recorded 740 postal and courier activities workplaces in Birmingham at the March 2025 reference date, 15 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 730 of them, 98.6%, employ under ten. C1 rounds run out of the few depots, not the long tail.

Of the postal and courier activities employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Birmingham, 100 are part time, 8.5% of the split. The middle across the West Midlands is 8.9%, so Birmingham sits level with it, 9th of 14 areas on this measure. That is a full-time shape, with part-time hours sitting mostly in evening and weekend parcel work.

Two further counts round out the Birmingham picture: 7,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 11,575 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Birmingham ranks 4th of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 615, against 1,075 in Birmingham. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Birmingham in that order sit Staffordshire at 1,260 and Walsall at 1,035.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Birmingham ranks 1st of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 230, against 740 in Birmingham. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Birmingham in that order sit Sandwell at 350.

Every figure here counts what exists in Birmingham: 1,075 courier jobs across 740 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.