7.5 tonne driver jobs in Lancashire

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Lancashire has 1,250 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 5,000 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 Lancashire the courier side alone is 0.24% of the 528,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Lancashire, median full-time pay was £35,779 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 510 postal and courier activities workplaces in Lancashire at the March 2025 reference date, 15 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 500 of them, 98%, 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 Lancashire, 110 are part time, 8.1% of the split. The middle across the North West is 7.1%, so Lancashire sits above it, 11th 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 Lancashire picture: 4,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 10,250 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Lancashire ranks 3rd of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 398, against 1,250 in Lancashire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Lancashire in that order sit Bolton at 1,325 and Salford at 1,200.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Lancashire ranks 1st of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 115, against 510 in Lancashire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Lancashire in that order sit Manchester at 295.

Every figure here counts what exists in Lancashire: 1,250 courier jobs across 510 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.