HGV class 1 driver jobs in Wolverhampton

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 1,750 employee jobs in it across Wolverhampton, 1.58% of the 111,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Wolverhampton figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 1,000 warehousing and storage jobs in Wolverhampton, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Wolverhampton was £35,740 a year in 2025, across every occupation in the area together. It is not a driving figure, and no local driving figure is published anywhere, because earnings are not broken down by occupation at this level.

UK Business Counts recorded 545 freight transport by road workplaces in Wolverhampton at the March 2025 reference date, 25 of them employing ten people or more. 520 of them, 95.4%, employ under ten. Artic work here comes from small yards rather than network depots.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Wolverhampton, 350 are part time, 18.9% of the split. The middle across the West Midlands is 18.8%, so Wolverhampton sits level with it, 7th of 14 areas on this measure. A part-time share that size usually reflects weekend trunking and relief cover counted alongside the permanent fleet.

Two further counts round out the Wolverhampton picture: 175 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 2,925 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Wolverhampton ranks 10th of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 2,000, against 1,750 in Wolverhampton. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Wolverhampton in that order sit Walsall at 1,750 and Shropshire at 1,250.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Wolverhampton ranks 6th of the 14 areas in the West Midlands. The middle across the West Midlands is 475, against 545 in Wolverhampton. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Wolverhampton in that order sit Worcestershire at 580 and Coventry at 520.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 1,750 jobs and 545 workplaces that already exist in Wolverhampton, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.