HGV class 1 driver jobs in Sutton

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 350 employee jobs in it across Sutton, 0.49% of the 71,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Sutton figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 600 warehousing and storage jobs in Sutton, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Sutton was £39,874 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 50 freight transport by road workplaces in Sutton at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 45 of them, 90%, 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 Sutton, 50 are part time, 16.7% of the split. The middle across London is 20%, so Sutton sits below it, 30th 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 Sutton picture: 310 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 1,260 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Sutton ranks 13th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 250, against 350 in Sutton. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Sutton in that order sit Redbridge at 350 and Waltham Forest at 350.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Sutton ranks 25th of the 33 areas in London. The middle across London is 100, against 50 in Sutton. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Sutton in that order sit Lewisham at 55 and Southwark at 45.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 350 jobs and 50 workplaces that already exist in Sutton, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.