7.5 tonne driver jobs in Central Bedfordshire

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Central Bedfordshire has 310 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 1,750 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 Central Bedfordshire the courier side alone is 0.28% of the 112,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Central Bedfordshire, median full-time pay was £37,704 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 145 postal and courier activities workplaces in Central Bedfordshire at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 135 of them, 93.1%, employ under ten. The handful that do not are where C1 rounds are loaded and dispatched.

Of the postal and courier activities employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Central Bedfordshire, 30 are part time, 10.3% of the split. The middle across the East of England is 10.3%, so Central Bedfordshire sits level with it, 6th of 11 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 Central Bedfordshire picture: 7,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 9,060 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Central Bedfordshire ranks 9th of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 425, against 310 in Central Bedfordshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Central Bedfordshire in that order sit Cambridgeshire at 370 and Bedford at 130.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Central Bedfordshire ranks 9th of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 295, against 145 in Central Bedfordshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Central Bedfordshire in that order sit Thurrock at 160 and Bedford at 60.

Every figure here counts what exists in Central Bedfordshire: 310 courier jobs across 145 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.