7.5 tonne driver jobs in Bolton

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Bolton has 1,325 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 900 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 Bolton the courier side alone is 1.13% of the 117,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Bolton, median full-time pay was £33,008 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 195 postal and courier activities workplaces in Bolton at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 190 of them, 97.4%, 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 Bolton, 180 are part time, 14.3% of the split. The middle across the North West is 7.1%, so Bolton sits above it, 5th of 24 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 Bolton picture: 3,500 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 5,725 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Bolton ranks 2nd of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 398, against 1,325 in Bolton. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Bolton in that order sit Warrington at 1,650 and Lancashire at 1,250.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Bolton ranks 7th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 115, against 195 in Bolton. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Bolton in that order sit Wigan at 220 and Salford at 180.

Every figure here counts what exists in Bolton: 1,325 courier jobs across 195 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.