7.5 tonne driver jobs in Swindon

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Swindon has 355 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 900 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 Swindon the courier side alone is 0.32% of the 112,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Swindon, median full-time pay was £40,280 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 375 postal and courier activities workplaces in Swindon at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 370 of them, 98.7%, 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 Swindon, 15 are part time, 4.7% of the split. The middle across the South West is 9.1%, so Swindon sits below it, 11th of 15 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 Swindon picture: 8,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 9,255 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Swindon ranks 5th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 130, against 355 in Swindon. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Swindon in that order sit Gloucestershire at 360 and Somerset at 305.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Swindon ranks 2nd of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 160, against 375 in Swindon. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Swindon in that order sit Devon at 400 and Bristol, City of at 295.

Every figure here counts what exists in Swindon: 355 courier jobs across 375 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.