7.5 tonne driver jobs in Bedford

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Bedford has 130 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 600 in freight transport by road, and 7.5 tonne work is run out of both.

Parcel and wholesale operations are where most C1 rounds sit. In Bedford the courier side alone is 0.16% of the 83,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Bedford, median full-time pay was £37,994 a year in 2025. That is the whole local labour market rather than this job, and there is no published local figure for this job to set beside it.

UK Business Counts recorded 60 postal and courier activities workplaces in Bedford at the March 2025 reference date. Every one of them is recorded as employing under ten. C1 rounds run out of the few depots, not the long tail.

Of the postal and courier activities employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Bedford, 15 are part time, 12.5% of the split. The middle across the East of England is 10.3%, so Bedford sits above it, 2nd of 11 areas on this measure. That is a full-time shape, with part-time hours sitting mostly in evening and weekend parcel work.

Two further counts round out the Bedford picture: 3,500 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 4,230 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Bedford ranks 10th of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 425, against 130 in Bedford. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Bedford in that order sit Central Bedfordshire at 310 and Southend-on-Sea at 20.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Bedford ranks 10th of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 295, against 60 in Bedford. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Bedford in that order sit Central Bedfordshire at 145 and Southend-on-Sea at 60.

Every figure here counts what exists in Bedford: 130 courier jobs across 60 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.