HGV class 1 driver jobs in Wrexham

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 500 employee jobs in it across Wrexham, 0.83% of the 60,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Wrexham figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 250 warehousing and storage jobs in Wrexham, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Wrexham was £37,053 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 85 freight transport by road workplaces in Wrexham at the March 2025 reference date, 15 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 65 of them, 76.5%, employ under ten, well below the usual shape of the trade. Artic work in Wrexham 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 Wrexham, 175 are part time, 36.8% of the split. The middle across Wales is 35.7%, so Wrexham sits above it, 9th of 22 areas on this measure. That is a high part-time share for road freight, and in a local industry this size a handful of jobs moves the proportion a long way.

Two further counts round out the Wrexham picture: 40 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 790 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Wrexham ranks 6th of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 325, against 500 in Wrexham. Next to Wrexham in that order sit Powys at 500 and Bridgend at 450.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Wrexham ranks 8th of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 70, against 85 in Wrexham. Next to Wrexham in that order sit Rhondda Cynon Taf at 85 and Caerphilly at 80.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 500 jobs and 85 workplaces that already exist in Wrexham, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.