7.5 tonne driver jobs in Medway

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Medway has 350 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 1,000 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 Medway the courier side alone is 0.36% of the 98,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Medway, median full-time pay was £37,128 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 190 postal and courier activities workplaces in Medway 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 Medway, 60 are part time, 16.7% of the split. The middle across the South East is 14.6%, so Medway sits above it, 5th of 19 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 Medway picture: 900 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 2,250 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Medway ranks 13th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 625, against 350 in Medway. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Medway in that order sit East Sussex at 350 and Isle of Wight at 210.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Medway ranks 8th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 165, against 190 in Medway. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Medway in that order sit Slough at 205 and Milton Keynes at 180.

Every figure here counts what exists in Medway: 350 courier jobs across 190 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.