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7.5 tonne driver jobs in Wakefield
Wakefield has 525 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, on the most recent business survey. Below are the published figures for the area, and every advert on this site for the role right now.
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Published figures for Wakefield
What the official data says about Wakefield
C1 rounds straddle two counts. Wakefield has 525 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 2,000 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 Wakefield the courier side alone is 0.32% of the 164,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.
Across all occupations in Wakefield, median full-time pay was £35,838 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 240 postal and courier activities workplaces in Wakefield at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. 230 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 Wakefield, 85 are part time, 15.5% of the split. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 26.2%, so Wakefield sits below it, 13th of 15 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 Wakefield picture: 13,000 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 15,525 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.
Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, Wakefield ranks 3rd of the 15 areas in Yorkshire and The Humber. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 190, against 525 in Wakefield. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to Wakefield in that order sit Rotherham at 635 and Sheffield at 425.
On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, Wakefield ranks 4th of the 15 areas in Yorkshire and The Humber. The middle across Yorkshire and The Humber is 180, against 240 in Wakefield. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to Wakefield in that order sit Sheffield at 320 and Bradford at 220.
Every figure here counts what exists in Wakefield: 525 courier jobs across 240 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.
- Employee jobs in postal and courier activities
- 525
- Employee jobs in freight transport by road
- 2,000
- Median full-time pay across all jobs in the area
- £35,838
- Postal and courier workplaces
- 240
- Postal and courier workplaces employing 10 or more
- 10
- Part-time share of postal and courier jobs
- 15.5%
- Postal and courier activities, share of all employee jobs
- 0.32%
The 7.5 tonne driver role
A 7.5 tonne rigid on category C1 is the bridge between a van and a lorry. The rounds are local, the drop counts are high and the vehicle is small enough to get down streets an artic could not attempt.
7.5 tonne driver jobs in Wakefield: common questions
How big is the logistics sector in Wakefield?
The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 2,000 employee jobs in freight transport by road in Wakefield and 13,000 in warehousing and storage, spread across 670 freight, warehousing and courier workplaces on the 2025 business register. Those are jobs and workplaces that exist in the area, not jobs being advertised.
What does a 7.5 tonne driver earn in Wakefield?
There is no published pay figure for this role in Wakefield: earnings are not broken down by occupation at local authority level anywhere in the official statistics, so anybody quoting one has estimated it. What is published is the size of the trade here, 240 postal and courier activities workplaces, and each of them sets its own rates. Every advert on this page carries its own rate.
Is 7.5 tonne driver work in Wakefield full time or part time?
Part-time hours account for 15.5% of the postal and courier activities jobs counted either way in Wakefield, 85 of them. Nothing published says how the live adverts divide, so read the hours on each one.
Do I need experience to apply for 7.5 tonne driver jobs in Wakefield?
Category C1 licence. Driver CPC card if you are driving professionally. Digital tachograph card. Each advert in Wakefield sets out what that employer asks for.