7.5 tonne driver jobs in Southampton

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Southampton has 650 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 1,250 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 Southampton the courier side alone is 0.57% of the 114,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Southampton, median full-time pay was £39,464 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 255 postal and courier activities workplaces in Southampton at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 250 of them, 98%, 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 Southampton, 135 are part time, 20% of the split. The middle across the South East is 14.6%, so Southampton sits above it, 3rd of 19 areas on this measure. Courier work carries more part-time hours than haulage, and a share around this level is the ordinary result of evening and weekend rounds.

Two further counts round out the Southampton picture: 500 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 2,400 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Southampton ranks 9th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 625, against 650 in Southampton. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Southampton in that order sit Milton Keynes at 750 and Reading at 625.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Southampton ranks 6th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 165, against 255 in Southampton. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Southampton in that order sit Oxfordshire at 305 and Slough at 205.

Every figure here counts what exists in Southampton: 650 courier jobs across 255 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.