7.5 tonne driver jobs in Cheshire East

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Cheshire East has 530 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 Cheshire East the courier side alone is 0.26% of the 207,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Cheshire East, median full-time pay was £39,459 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 140 postal and courier activities workplaces in Cheshire East at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 135 of them, 96.4%, 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 Cheshire East, 25 are part time, 4.5% of the split. The middle across the North West is 7.1%, so Cheshire East sits below it, 17th of 24 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 Cheshire East picture: 4,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 6,280 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Cheshire East ranks 10th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 398, against 530 in Cheshire East. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Cheshire East in that order sit Cumberland at 675 and Cheshire West and Chester at 525.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Cheshire East ranks 9th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 115, against 140 in Cheshire East. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Cheshire East in that order sit Salford at 180 and Oldham at 130.

Every figure here counts what exists in Cheshire East: 530 courier jobs across 140 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.