7.5 tonne driver jobs in Oldham

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Oldham has 735 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 600 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 Oldham the courier side alone is 0.8% of the 92,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Oldham, median full-time pay was £33,860 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 130 postal and courier activities workplaces in Oldham at the March 2025 reference date, 0 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 125 of them, 96.2%, 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 Oldham, 100 are part time, 13.6% of the split. The middle across the North West is 7.1%, so Oldham sits above it, 6th 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 Oldham picture: 800 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 2,135 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Oldham ranks 7th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 398, against 735 in Oldham. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Oldham in that order sit Manchester at 825 and Wigan at 725.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Oldham ranks 10th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 115, against 130 in Oldham. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Oldham in that order sit Cheshire East at 140 and Rochdale at 125.

Every figure here counts what exists in Oldham: 735 courier jobs across 130 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.