HGV class 1 driver jobs in Nottingham

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 500 employee jobs in it across Nottingham, 0.23% of the 213,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

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

Median full-time pay for a job based in Nottingham was £34,868 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 205 freight transport by road workplaces in Nottingham at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 200 of them, 97.6%, 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 Nottingham, 100 are part time, 20% of the split. The middle across the East Midlands is 20.3%, so Nottingham sits level with it, 6th 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 Nottingham picture: 240 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 1,740 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Nottingham ranks 9th of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 3,000, against 500 in Nottingham. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Nottingham in that order sit Derby at 600 and Rutland at 250.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Nottingham ranks 9th of the 10 areas in the East Midlands. The middle across the East Midlands is 598, against 205 in Nottingham. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Nottingham in that order sit Derby at 250 and Rutland at 15.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 500 jobs and 205 workplaces that already exist in Nottingham, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.