7.5 tonne driver jobs in Tameside

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Tameside has 85 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 Tameside the courier side alone is 0.12% of the 70,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Tameside, median full-time pay was £30,734 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 110 postal and courier activities workplaces in Tameside 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 Tameside, 25 are part time, 22.7% of the split. The middle across the North West is 7.1%, so Tameside sits above it, 3rd of 24 areas on this measure. Courier work carries more part-time hours than haulage, and a share around this level is the ordinary result of evening and weekend rounds.

Two further counts round out the Tameside picture: 200 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 885 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Tameside ranks 22nd of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 398, against 85 in Tameside. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Tameside in that order sit Westmorland and Furness at 150 and Blackpool at 70.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Tameside ranks 14th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 115, against 110 in Tameside. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Tameside in that order sit St. Helens at 110 and Wirral at 110.

Every figure here counts what exists in Tameside: 85 courier jobs across 110 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.