7.5 tonne driver jobs in County Durham

C1 rounds straddle two counts. County Durham has 475 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 3,000 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 County Durham the courier side alone is 0.25% of the 188,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in County Durham, median full-time pay was £32,945 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 260 postal and courier activities workplaces in County Durham at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 255 of them, 98.1%, 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 County Durham, 175 are part time, 36.8% of the split. The middle across the North East is 71.8%, so County Durham sits below it, 11th of 12 areas on this measure. A part-time share this size is common in parcel work, where rounds are built to cover peaks rather than to fill a working week.

Two further counts round out the County Durham picture: 4,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 7,475 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, County Durham ranks 2nd of the 12 areas in the North East. The middle across the North East is 100, against 475 in County Durham. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to County Durham in that order sit Gateshead at 510 and South Tyneside at 410.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, County Durham ranks 1st of the 12 areas in the North East. The middle across the North East is 93, against 260 in County Durham. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to County Durham in that order sit Sunderland at 210.

Every figure here counts what exists in County Durham: 475 courier jobs across 260 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.