7.5 tonne driver jobs in Isle of Wight

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Isle of Wight has 210 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 175 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 Isle of Wight the courier side alone is 0.39% of the 54,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Isle of Wight, median full-time pay was £28,543 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 10 postal and courier activities workplaces in Isle of Wight 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 Isle of Wight, 30 are part time, 15.8% of the split. The middle across the South East is 14.6%, so Isle of Wight sits above it, 7th of 19 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 Isle of Wight picture: 125 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 510 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Isle of Wight ranks 14th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 625, against 210 in Isle of Wight. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Isle of Wight in that order sit Medway at 350 and Portsmouth at 195.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Isle of Wight ranks 19th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 165, against 10 in Isle of Wight. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Isle of Wight in that order sit Bracknell Forest at 35.

Every figure here counts what exists in Isle of Wight: 210 courier jobs across 10 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.