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7.5 tonne driver jobs in Tower Hamlets
Tower Hamlets has 510 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, on the most recent business survey. Below are the published figures for the area, and every advert on this site for the role right now.
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Published figures for Tower Hamlets
What the official data says about Tower Hamlets
C1 rounds straddle two counts. Tower Hamlets has 510 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 225 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 Tower Hamlets the courier side alone is 0.15% of the 344,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.
Across all occupations in Tower Hamlets, median full-time pay was £66,686 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 75 postal and courier activities workplaces in Tower Hamlets at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 70 of them, 93.3%, employ under ten. The handful that do not are where C1 rounds are loaded and dispatched.
Of the postal and courier activities employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Tower Hamlets, 75 are part time, 15.5% of the split. The middle across London is 13.5%, so Tower Hamlets sits above it, 10th of 33 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 Tower Hamlets picture: 900 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 1,635 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.
Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Tower Hamlets ranks 7th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 155, against 510 in Tower Hamlets. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Tower Hamlets in that order sit Newham at 520 and Ealing at 480.
On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Tower Hamlets ranks 26th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 130, against 75 in Tower Hamlets. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Tower Hamlets in that order sit Bromley at 75 and Sutton at 70.
Every figure here counts what exists in Tower Hamlets: 510 courier jobs across 75 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.
- Employee jobs in postal and courier activities
- 510
- Employee jobs in freight transport by road
- 225
- Median full-time pay across all jobs in the area
- £66,686
- Postal and courier workplaces
- 75
- Postal and courier workplaces employing 10 or more
- 5
- Part-time share of postal and courier jobs
- 15.5%
- Postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs
- 0.15%
The 7.5 tonne driver role
A 7.5 tonne rigid on category C1 is the bridge between a van and a lorry. The rounds are local, the drop counts are high and the vehicle is small enough to get down streets an artic could not attempt.
7.5 tonne driver jobs in Tower Hamlets: common questions
How big is the logistics sector in Tower Hamlets?
The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 225 employee jobs in freight transport by road in Tower Hamlets and 900 in warehousing and storage, spread across 155 freight, warehousing and courier workplaces on the 2025 business register. Those are jobs and workplaces that exist in the area, not jobs being advertised.
What does a 7.5 tonne driver earn in Tower Hamlets?
There is no published pay figure for this role in Tower Hamlets: earnings are not broken down by occupation at local authority level anywhere in the official statistics, so anybody quoting one has estimated it. What is published is the size of the trade here, 75 postal and courier activities workplaces, and each of them sets its own rates. Every advert on this page carries its own rate.
Is 7.5 tonne driver work in Tower Hamlets full time or part time?
Part-time hours account for 15.5% of the postal and courier activities jobs counted either way in Tower Hamlets, 75 of them. Nothing published says how the live adverts divide, so read the hours on each one.
Do I need experience to apply for 7.5 tonne driver jobs in Tower Hamlets?
Category C1 licence. Driver CPC card if you are driving professionally. Digital tachograph card. Each advert in Tower Hamlets sets out what that employer asks for.