7.5 tonne driver jobs in Cambridgeshire

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Cambridgeshire has 370 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 4,000 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 Cambridgeshire the courier side alone is 0.1% of the 359,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Cambridgeshire, median full-time pay was £42,323 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 215 postal and courier activities workplaces in Cambridgeshire at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. 205 of them, 95.3%, 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 Cambridgeshire, 20 are part time, 5.2% of the split. The middle across the East of England is 10.3%, so Cambridgeshire sits below it, 10th of 11 areas on this measure. Almost all of it is full time, which for C1 work usually means a fixed round rather than relief cover.

Two further counts round out the Cambridgeshire picture: 2,500 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 6,870 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Cambridgeshire ranks 8th of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 425, against 370 in Cambridgeshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Cambridgeshire in that order sit Peterborough at 425 and Central Bedfordshire at 310.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Cambridgeshire ranks 7th of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 295, against 215 in Cambridgeshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Cambridgeshire in that order sit Luton at 295 and Thurrock at 160.

Every figure here counts what exists in Cambridgeshire: 370 courier jobs across 215 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.