7.5 tonne driver jobs in Stoke-on-Trent

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Stoke-on-Trent has 615 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 4,000 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 Stoke-on-Trent the courier side alone is 0.5% of the 124,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Stoke-on-Trent, median full-time pay was £34,744 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 300 postal and courier activities workplaces in Stoke-on-Trent at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 295 of them, 98.3%, 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 Stoke-on-Trent, 75 are part time, 10.9% of the split. The middle across the West Midlands is 8.9%, so Stoke-on-Trent sits above it, 3rd of 14 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 Stoke-on-Trent picture: 5,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 9,615 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Stoke-on-Trent ranks 7th of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 615, against 615 in Stoke-on-Trent. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Stoke-on-Trent in that order sit Coventry at 1,015 and Worcestershire at 615.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Stoke-on-Trent ranks 5th of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 230, against 300 in Stoke-on-Trent. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Stoke-on-Trent in that order sit Staffordshire at 300 and Warwickshire at 285.

Every figure here counts what exists in Stoke-on-Trent: 615 courier jobs across 300 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.