7.5 tonne driver jobs in Suffolk

C1 rounds straddle two counts. Suffolk has 625 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 6,000 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 Suffolk the courier side alone is 0.18% of the 339,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in Suffolk, median full-time pay was £36,891 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 360 postal and courier activities workplaces in Suffolk at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. Business counts are rounded one cell at a time, so the bands sit loosely against the total. 345 of them, 95.8%, 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 Suffolk, 75 are part time, 12.5% of the split. The middle across the East of England is 10.3%, so Suffolk sits above it, 3rd of 11 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 Suffolk picture: 4,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 10,625 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Suffolk ranks 4th of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 425, against 625 in Suffolk. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Suffolk in that order sit Norfolk at 775 and Thurrock at 475.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Suffolk ranks 5th of the 11 areas in the East of England. The middle across the East of England is 295, against 360 in Suffolk. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Suffolk in that order sit Hertfordshire at 435 and Luton at 295.

Every figure here counts what exists in Suffolk: 625 courier jobs across 360 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.