HGV class 1 driver jobs in Barnsley

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 800 employee jobs in it across Barnsley, 0.95% of the 84,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Barnsley figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 3,500 warehousing and storage jobs in Barnsley, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Barnsley was £35,629 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 270 freight transport by road workplaces in Barnsley at the March 2025 reference date, 15 of them employing ten people or more. 255 of them, 94.4%, employ under ten, which is the ordinary shape of haulage.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Barnsley, 100 are part time, 12.5% of the split. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 13%, so Barnsley sits level with it, 9th of 15 areas on this measure. That is the shape most artic drivers would expect: full-time work with part-time hours around the edges.

Two further counts round out the Barnsley picture: 175 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 4,475 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Barnsley ranks 10th of the 15 areas in Yorkshire and The Humber. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 1,250, against 800 in Barnsley. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Barnsley in that order sit North East Lincolnshire at 1,250 and Hull at 800.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Barnsley ranks 10th of the 15 areas in Yorkshire and The Humber. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 295, against 270 in Barnsley. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Barnsley in that order sit Kirklees at 275 and Sheffield at 250.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 800 jobs and 270 workplaces that already exist in Barnsley, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.