7.5 tonne driver jobs in Kent

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Kent has 3,400 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 6,000 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 Kent the courier side alone is 0.52% of the 650,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Kent, median full-time pay was £36,127 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 640 postal and courier activities workplaces in Kent at the March 2025 reference date, 30 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 605 of them, 94.5%, employ under ten. The handful that do not are where C1 rounds are loaded and dispatched.

Of the postal and courier activities employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Kent, 500 are part time, 14.9% of the split. The middle across the South East is 14.6%, so Kent sits level with it, 9th 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 Kent picture: 12,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 21,400 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Kent ranks 2nd of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 625, against 3,400 in Kent. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Kent in that order sit Slough at 3,575 and West Sussex at 1,950.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Kent ranks 1st of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 165, against 640 in Kent. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Kent in that order sit Hampshire at 430.

Every figure here counts what exists in Kent: 3,400 courier jobs across 640 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.