7.5 tonne driver jobs in Coventry

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Coventry has 1,015 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 2,250 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 Coventry the courier side alone is 0.63% of the 162,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Coventry, median full-time pay was £41,278 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 310 postal and courier activities workplaces in Coventry at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 305 of them, 98.4%, 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 Coventry, 100 are part time, 9.9% of the split. The middle across the West Midlands is 8.9%, so Coventry sits above it, 5th of 14 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 Coventry picture: 5,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 8,265 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Coventry ranks 6th of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 615, against 1,015 in Coventry. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Coventry in that order sit Walsall at 1,035 and Stoke-on-Trent at 615.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Coventry ranks 3rd of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 230, against 310 in Coventry. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Coventry in that order sit Sandwell at 350 and Staffordshire at 300.

Every figure here counts what exists in Coventry: 1,015 courier jobs across 310 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.