7.5 tonne driver jobs in Salford

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Salford has 1,200 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 900 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 Salford the courier side alone is 0.69% of the 173,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Salford, median full-time pay was £38,492 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 180 postal and courier activities workplaces in Salford at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 175 of them, 97.2%, 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 Salford, 200 are part time, 16.7% of the split. The middle across the North West is 7.1%, so Salford sits above it, 4th of 24 areas on this measure. Courier work carries more part-time hours than haulage, and a share around this level is the ordinary result of evening and weekend rounds.

Two further counts round out the Salford picture: 800 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 2,900 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Salford ranks 4th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 398, against 1,200 in Salford. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Salford in that order sit Lancashire at 1,250 and Liverpool at 1,025.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Salford ranks 8th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 115, against 180 in Salford. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Salford in that order sit Bolton at 195 and Cheshire East at 140.

Every figure here counts what exists in Salford: 1,200 courier jobs across 180 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.