7.5 tonne driver jobs in Vale of Glamorgan

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Vale of Glamorgan has 10 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 350 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 Vale of Glamorgan the courier side alone is 0.02% of the 42,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Vale of Glamorgan, median full-time pay was £35,204 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 45 postal and courier activities workplaces in Vale of Glamorgan 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 Vale of Glamorgan, 0 are part time, 0% of the split. The middle across Wales is 23.1%, so Vale of Glamorgan sits below it, 17th of 17 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 Vale of Glamorgan picture: 175 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 535 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Vale of Glamorgan ranks 18th of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 40, against 10 in Vale of Glamorgan. Next to Vale of Glamorgan in that order sit Merthyr Tydfil at 10 and Denbighshire at 5.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Vale of Glamorgan ranks 13th of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 48, against 45 in Vale of Glamorgan. Next to Vale of Glamorgan in that order sit Monmouthshire at 45 and Blaenau Gwent at 35.

Every figure here counts what exists in Vale of Glamorgan: 10 courier jobs across 45 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.