7.5 tonne driver jobs in Nottingham

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Nottingham has 240 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 500 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 Nottingham the courier side alone is 0.11% of the 213,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Nottingham, median full-time pay was £34,868 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 195 postal and courier activities workplaces in Nottingham at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 190 of them, 97.4%, 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 Nottingham, 5 are part time, 2% of the split. The middle across the East Midlands is 8.5%, so Nottingham sits below it, 9th of 9 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 Nottingham picture: 1,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 1,740 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Nottingham ranks 8th of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 400, against 240 in Nottingham. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Nottingham in that order sit Lincolnshire at 365 and Derby at 60.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Nottingham ranks 8th of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 273, against 195 in Nottingham. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Nottingham in that order sit Derbyshire at 225 and Derby at 155.

Every figure here counts what exists in Nottingham: 240 courier jobs across 195 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.