7.5 tonne driver jobs in Walsall

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Walsall has 1,035 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 1,750 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 Walsall the courier side alone is 1.06% of the 98,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Walsall, median full-time pay was £34,980 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 200 postal and courier activities workplaces in Walsall at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 190 of them, 95%, 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 Walsall, 100 are part time, 9.7% of the split. The middle across the West Midlands is 8.9%, so Walsall sits level with it, 6th 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 Walsall picture: 2,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 4,785 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Walsall ranks 5th of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 615, against 1,035 in Walsall. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Walsall in that order sit Birmingham at 1,075 and Coventry at 1,015.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Walsall ranks 8th of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 230, against 200 in Walsall. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Walsall in that order sit Worcestershire at 260 and Wolverhampton at 195.

Every figure here counts what exists in Walsall: 1,035 courier jobs across 200 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.