7.5 tonne driver jobs in Wolverhampton

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Wolverhampton has 175 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 Wolverhampton the courier side alone is 0.16% of the 111,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Wolverhampton, median full-time pay was £35,740 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 195 postal and courier activities workplaces in Wolverhampton at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 190 of them, 97.4%, 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 Wolverhampton, 5 are part time, 3.2% of the split. The middle across the West Midlands is 8.9%, so Wolverhampton sits below it, 13th of 14 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 Wolverhampton picture: 1,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 2,925 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Wolverhampton ranks 10th of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 615, against 175 in Wolverhampton. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Wolverhampton in that order sit Solihull at 200 and Shropshire at 170.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Wolverhampton ranks 9th of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 230, against 195 in Wolverhampton. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Wolverhampton in that order sit Walsall at 200 and Dudley at 120.

Every figure here counts what exists in Wolverhampton: 175 courier jobs across 195 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.