7.5 tonne driver jobs in St. Helens

C1 rounds straddle two counts. St. Helens has 160 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 450 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 St. Helens the courier side alone is 0.25% of the 63,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in St. Helens, median full-time pay was £33,379 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 St. Helens at the March 2025 reference date. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 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 St. Helens, 50 are part time, 31.3% of the split. The middle across the North West is 7.1%, so St. Helens sits above it, 1st of 24 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 St. Helens picture: 3,500 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 4,110 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, St. Helens ranks 20th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 398, against 160 in St. Helens. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to St. Helens in that order sit Sefton at 175 and Westmorland and Furness at 150.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, St. Helens ranks 13th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 115, against 110 in St. Helens. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to St. Helens in that order sit Cheshire West and Chester at 120 and Tameside at 110.

Every figure here counts what exists in St. Helens: 160 courier jobs across 110 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.