HGV class 1 driver jobs in North Somerset

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 1,000 employee jobs in it across North Somerset, 1.09% of the 92,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

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

Median full-time pay for a job based in North Somerset was £34,838 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 200 freight transport by road workplaces in North Somerset at the March 2025 reference date, 15 of them employing ten people or more. 185 of them, 92.5%, 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 North Somerset, 250 are part time, 23.8% of the split. The middle across the South West is 24.4%, so North Somerset sits level with it, 8th of 14 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 North Somerset picture: 40 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 2,540 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, North Somerset ranks 8th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 1,000, against 1,000 in North Somerset. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to North Somerset in that order sit Wiltshire at 1,250 and Swindon at 900.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, North Somerset ranks 9th of the 15 areas in the South West. The middle across the South West is 205, against 200 in North Somerset. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to North Somerset in that order sit Cornwall at 205 and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole at 140.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 1,000 jobs and 200 workplaces that already exist in North Somerset, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.