HGV class 1 driver jobs in Derbyshire

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 4,000 employee jobs in it across Derbyshire, 1.32% of the 304,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Derbyshire figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 10,000 warehousing and storage jobs in Derbyshire, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Derbyshire was £36,011 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 640 freight transport by road workplaces in Derbyshire at the March 2025 reference date, 80 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 555 of them, 86.7%, employ under ten, a lower share than most areas, so more artic work sits with medium fleets running planned trunks.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Derbyshire, 800 are part time, 21.1% of the split. The middle across the East Midlands is 20.3%, so Derbyshire sits level with it, 2nd 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 Derbyshire picture: 375 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 14,375 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Derbyshire ranks 3rd of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 3,000, against 4,000 in Derbyshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Derbyshire in that order sit Leicestershire at 4,500 and Nottinghamshire at 4,000.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Derbyshire ranks 4th of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 598, against 640 in Derbyshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Derbyshire in that order sit Leicestershire at 720 and Nottinghamshire at 620.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 4,000 jobs and 640 workplaces that already exist in Derbyshire, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.