HGV class 1 driver jobs in Rutland

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 250 employee jobs in it across Rutland, 1.56% of the 16,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Rutland figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 50 warehousing and storage jobs in Rutland, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Rutland was £38,186 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 15 freight transport by road workplaces in Rutland at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 10 of them, 66.7%, employ under ten, well below the usual shape of the trade. Artic work in Rutland is concentrated in larger fleets, and larger fleets bring planners and set shifts.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Rutland, 40 are part time, 16.7% of the split. The middle across the East Midlands is 20.3%, so Rutland sits below it, 8th 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 Rutland picture: 0 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 300 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

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

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

None of this counts adverts. It counts 250 jobs and 15 workplaces that already exist in Rutland, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.