HGV class 1 driver jobs in Derby

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 600 employee jobs in it across Derby, 0.43% of the 138,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

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

Median full-time pay for a job based in Derby was £41,924 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 250 freight transport by road workplaces in Derby at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. 240 of them, 96%, 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 Derby, 150 are part time, 25% of the split. The middle across the East Midlands is 20.3%, so Derby sits above it, 1st of 10 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 Derby picture: 60 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 1,660 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Derby ranks 8th of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 3,000, against 600 in Derby. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Derby in that order sit Leicester at 2,000 and Nottingham at 500.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Derby ranks 8th of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 598, against 250 in Derby. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Derby in that order sit Leicester at 405 and Nottingham at 205.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 600 jobs and 250 workplaces that already exist in Derby, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.