7.5 tonne driver jobs in Dumfries and Galloway

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Dumfries and Galloway has 55 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 1,250 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 Dumfries and Galloway the courier side alone is 0.09% of the 59,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Dumfries and Galloway, median full-time pay was £34,239 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 60 postal and courier activities workplaces in Dumfries and Galloway at the March 2025 reference date. Every one of them is recorded as employing 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 Dumfries and Galloway, 10 are part time, 16.7% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 18.9%, so Dumfries and Galloway sits below it, 16th of 28 areas on this measure. Courier work carries more part-time hours than haulage, and a share around this level is the ordinary result of evening and weekend rounds.

Two further counts round out the Dumfries and Galloway picture: 75 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 1,380 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Dumfries and Galloway ranks 13th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 50, against 55 in Dumfries and Galloway. Next to Dumfries and Galloway in that order sit Fife at 60 and Argyll and Bute at 50.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Dumfries and Galloway ranks 13th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 38, against 60 in Dumfries and Galloway. Next to Dumfries and Galloway in that order sit Highland at 75 and Angus at 45.

Every figure here counts what exists in Dumfries and Galloway: 55 courier jobs across 60 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.