7.5 tonne driver jobs in South Tyneside

C1 rounds straddle two counts. South Tyneside has 410 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 400 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 Tyneside the courier side alone is 1% of the 41,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in South Tyneside, median full-time pay was £31,604 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 110 postal and courier activities workplaces in South Tyneside 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. 105 of them, 95.5%, 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 South Tyneside, 110 are part time, 26.8% of the split. The middle across the North East is 71.8%, so South Tyneside sits below it, 12th of 12 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 South Tyneside picture: 450 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 1,260 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, South Tyneside ranks 3rd of the 12 areas in the North East. The middle across the North East is 100, against 410 in South Tyneside. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to South Tyneside in that order sit County Durham at 475 and Stockton-on-Tees at 360.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, South Tyneside ranks 5th of the 12 areas in the North East. The middle across the North East is 93, against 110 in South Tyneside. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to South Tyneside in that order sit Gateshead at 130 and North Tyneside at 100.

Every figure here counts what exists in South Tyneside: 410 courier jobs across 110 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.