7.5 tonne driver jobs in East Ayrshire

C1 rounds straddle two counts. East Ayrshire has 25 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 250 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 East Ayrshire the courier side alone is 0.06% of the 41,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in East Ayrshire, median full-time pay was £37,250 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 30 postal and courier activities workplaces in East Ayrshire 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. 25 of them, 83.3%, employ under ten, below the usual courier share, so East Ayrshire carries more depot-sized operations running 7.5 tonne vehicles rather than vans.

Of the postal and courier activities employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in East Ayrshire, 10 are part time, 40% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 18.9%, so East Ayrshire sits above it, 1st of 28 areas on this measure. A part-time share this size is common in parcel work, where rounds are built to cover peaks rather than to fill a working week.

Two further counts round out the East Ayrshire picture: 150 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 425 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, East Ayrshire ranks 22nd of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 50, against 25 in East Ayrshire. Next to East Ayrshire in that order sit Angus at 35 and East Dunbartonshire at 20.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, East Ayrshire ranks 19th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 38, against 30 in East Ayrshire. Next to East Ayrshire in that order sit Midlothian at 35 and East Renfrewshire at 25.

Every figure here counts what exists in East Ayrshire: 25 courier jobs across 30 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.