7.5 tonne driver jobs in Portsmouth

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Portsmouth has 195 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 350 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 Portsmouth the courier side alone is 0.19% of the 104,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Portsmouth, median full-time pay was £38,815 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 100 postal and courier activities workplaces in Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth, 25 are part time, 12.8% of the split. The middle across the South East is 14.6%, so Portsmouth sits below it, 16th of 19 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 Portsmouth picture: 1,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 1,545 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Portsmouth ranks 15th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 625, against 195 in Portsmouth. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Portsmouth in that order sit Isle of Wight at 210 and Bracknell Forest at 180.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Portsmouth ranks 12th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 165, against 100 in Portsmouth. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Portsmouth in that order sit Reading at 150 and East Sussex at 90.

Every figure here counts what exists in Portsmouth: 195 courier jobs across 100 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.