HGV class 1 driver jobs in Salford

Articulated work belongs to the freight transport by road industry. The 2024 Business Register and Employment Survey counted 900 employee jobs in it across Salford, 0.52% of the 173,000 employee jobs the survey records in the area.

Trunking and tramping routes are planned around operating centres rather than around towns, so the Salford figure describes where the vehicles are based, not where the drivers live. The survey also counts 800 warehousing and storage jobs in Salford, which is what sits at one end of most class 1 runs.

Median full-time pay for a job based in Salford was £38,492 a year in 2025, across every occupation in the area together. It is not a driving figure, and no local driving figure is published anywhere, because earnings are not broken down by occupation at this level.

UK Business Counts recorded 150 freight transport by road workplaces in Salford at the March 2025 reference date, 5 of them employing ten people or more. 145 of them, 96.7%, employ under ten. Artic work here comes from small yards rather than network depots.

Of the freight transport by road employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in Salford, 350 are part time, 36.8% of the split. The middle across the North West is 15.8%, so Salford sits above it, 1st of 24 areas on this measure. That is a high part-time share for road freight, and in a local industry this size a handful of jobs moves the proportion a long way.

Two further counts round out the Salford picture: 1,200 employee jobs in postal and courier activities, and 2,900 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in freight transport by road, Salford ranks 14th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 900, against 900 in Salford. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 900. Next to Salford in that order sit Knowsley at 900 and Manchester at 800.

On the separate business register count of freight transport by road workplaces, Salford ranks 12th of the 24 areas in the North West. The middle across the North West is 148, against 150 in Salford. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 200. Next to Salford in that order sit Cumberland at 155 and St. Helens at 145.

None of this counts adverts. It counts 900 jobs and 150 workplaces that already exist in Salford, which is a different thing from what is open to apply for today.