7.5 tonne driver jobs in Powys

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Powys has 40 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 Powys the courier side alone is 0.08% of the 49,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Powys, median full-time pay was £31,163 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 25 postal and courier activities workplaces in Powys 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 Powys, 10 are part time, 33.3% of the split. The middle across Wales is 23.1%, so Powys sits above it, 6th of 17 areas on this measure. A part-time share this size is common in parcel work, where rounds are built to cover peaks rather than to fill a working week.

Two further counts round out the Powys picture: 75 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 615 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Powys ranks 11th of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 40, against 40 in Powys. Next to Powys in that order sit Gwynedd at 50 and Wrexham at 40.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Powys ranks 18th of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 48, against 25 in Powys. Next to Powys in that order sit Denbighshire at 30 and Gwynedd at 15.

Every figure here counts what exists in Powys: 40 courier jobs across 25 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.