7.5 tonne driver jobs in Cumberland

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Cumberland has 675 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 Cumberland the courier side alone is 0.52% of the 130,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Cumberland, median full-time pay was £42,808 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 265 postal and courier activities workplaces in Cumberland at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 260 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 Cumberland, 80 are part time, 10.6% of the split. The middle across the North West is 7.1%, so Cumberland sits above it, 8th of 24 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 Cumberland picture: 500 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 3,425 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Cumberland ranks 9th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 398, against 675 in Cumberland. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Cumberland in that order sit Wigan at 725 and Cheshire East at 530.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Cumberland ranks 4th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 115, against 265 in Cumberland. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Cumberland in that order sit Liverpool at 270 and Warrington at 220.

Every figure here counts what exists in Cumberland: 675 courier jobs across 265 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.