HGV class 1 driver jobs in Kingston upon Thames

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 100 employee jobs in it across Kingston upon Thames, 0.14% of the 74,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

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

Median full-time pay for a job based in Kingston upon Thames was £42,346 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 40 freight transport by road workplaces in Kingston upon Thames at the March 2025 reference date. Every one of them is recorded as employing 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 Kingston upon Thames, 20 are part time, 21.1% of the split. The middle across London is 20%, so Kingston upon Thames sits above it, 10th of 33 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 Kingston upon Thames picture: 70 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 670 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Kingston upon Thames ranks 27th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 250, against 100 in Kingston upon Thames. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Kingston upon Thames in that order sit City of London at 100 and Lambeth at 100.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Kingston upon Thames ranks 28th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 100, against 40 in Kingston upon Thames. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Kingston upon Thames in that order sit Wandsworth at 45 and Lambeth at 40.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 100 jobs and 40 workplaces that already exist in Kingston upon Thames, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.