7.5 tonne driver jobs in South Ayrshire

C1 rounds straddle two counts. South Ayrshire has 15 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 175 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 South Ayrshire the courier side alone is 0.03% of the 46,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in South Ayrshire, median full-time pay was £40,033 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 15 postal and courier activities workplaces in South Ayrshire 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 South Ayrshire, 5 are part time, 33.3% of the split. The middle across Scotland is 18.9%, so South Ayrshire sits above it, 3rd 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 South Ayrshire picture: 50 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 240 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, South Ayrshire ranks 25th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 50, against 15 in South Ayrshire. Next to South Ayrshire in that order sit East Renfrewshire at 15 and West Dunbartonshire at 15.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, South Ayrshire ranks 29th of the 32 areas in Scotland. The middle across Scotland is 38, against 15 in South Ayrshire. Next to South Ayrshire in that order sit Scottish Borders at 15 and Na h-Eileanan Siar at 0.

Every figure here counts what exists in South Ayrshire: 15 courier jobs across 15 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.