7.5 tonne driver jobs in West Berkshire

C1 rounds straddle two counts. West Berkshire has 500 employee jobs in postal and courier activities and 350 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 West Berkshire the courier side alone is 0.48% of the 104,000 employee jobs the survey counts locally.

Across all occupations in West Berkshire, median full-time pay was £42,135 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 75 postal and courier activities workplaces in West Berkshire at the March 2025 reference date, 10 of them employing ten people or more. 65 of them, 86.7%, employ under ten, below the usual courier share, so West Berkshire carries more depot-sized operations running 7.5 tonne vehicles rather than vans.

Of the postal and courier activities employee jobs the 2024 survey splits by hours in West Berkshire, 60 are part time, 13% of the split. The middle across the South East is 14.6%, so West Berkshire sits below it, 15th of 19 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 West Berkshire picture: 1,250 employee jobs in warehousing and storage, and 2,100 employee jobs across freight, warehousing and courier work.

Measured on employee jobs in postal and courier activities, West Berkshire ranks 11th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 625, against 500 in West Berkshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 305. Next to West Berkshire in that order sit Reading at 625 and East Sussex at 350.

On the separate business register count of postal and courier workplaces, West Berkshire ranks 14th of the 19 areas in the South East. The middle across the South East is 165, against 75 in West Berkshire. Across the 153 areas in England the middle is 150. Next to West Berkshire in that order sit East Sussex at 90 and Brighton and Hove at 70.

Every figure here counts what exists in West Berkshire: 500 courier jobs across 75 courier workplaces. How many 7.5 tonne rounds are being advertised today is the live list above.