7.5 tonne driver jobs in Manchester

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Manchester has 825 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 800 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 Manchester the courier side alone is 0.18% of the 453,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Manchester, median full-time pay was £40,479 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 295 postal and courier activities workplaces in Manchester at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. 285 of them, 96.6%, 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 Manchester, 45 are part time, 5.3% of the split. The middle across the North West is 7.1%, so Manchester sits below it, 16th of 24 areas on this measure. Almost all of it is full time, which for C1 work usually means a fixed round rather than relief cover.

Two further counts round out the Manchester picture: 2,500 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 4,125 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Manchester ranks 6th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 398, against 825 in Manchester. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Manchester in that order sit Liverpool at 1,025 and Oldham at 735.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Manchester ranks 2nd of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 115, against 295 in Manchester. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Manchester in that order sit Lancashire at 510 and Liverpool at 270.

Every figure here counts what exists in Manchester: 825 courier jobs across 295 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.