7.5 tonne driver jobs in Newport

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Newport has 180 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 800 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 Newport the courier side alone is 0.23% of the 77,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Newport, median full-time pay was £36,939 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 140 postal and courier activities workplaces in Newport 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 Newport, 20 are part time, 11.8% of the split. The middle across Wales is 23.1%, so Newport sits below it, 13th of 17 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 Newport picture: 1,500 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 2,480 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Newport ranks 5th of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 40, against 180 in Newport. Next to Newport in that order sit Swansea at 185 and Conwy at 130.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Newport ranks 3rd of the 22 areas in Wales. The middle across Wales is 48, against 140 in Newport. Next to Newport in that order sit Swansea at 145 and Flintshire at 115.

Every figure here counts what exists in Newport: 180 courier jobs across 140 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.