7.5 tonne driver jobs in Cheshire West and Chester

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Cheshire West and Chester has 525 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 1,000 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 Cheshire West and Chester the courier side alone is 0.3% of the 176,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Cheshire West and Chester, median full-time pay was £37,198 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 120 postal and courier activities workplaces in Cheshire West and Chester at the March 2025 reference date, 0 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 115 of them, 95.8%, employ 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 Cheshire West and Chester, 10 are part time, 1.9% of the split. The middle across the North West is 7.1%, so Cheshire West and Chester sits below it, 21st of 24 areas on this measure. Almost all of it is full time, which for C1 work usually means a fixed round rather than relief cover.

Two further counts round out the Cheshire West and Chester picture: 1,500 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 3,025 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Cheshire West and Chester ranks 11th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 398, against 525 in Cheshire West and Chester. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Cheshire West and Chester in that order sit Cheshire East at 530 and Knowsley at 420.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Cheshire West and Chester ranks 12th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 115, against 120 in Cheshire West and Chester. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Cheshire West and Chester in that order sit Rochdale at 125 and St. Helens at 110.

Every figure here counts what exists in Cheshire West and Chester: 525 courier jobs across 120 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.