Reports

Employment and Skills Report 2026. Logistics UK’s new report brings together key insights and bespoke analysis on employment and skills in UK logistics.

The Logistics Report 2026 is Logistics UK’s annual review of the trends affecting the logistics industry in the UK. It provides an up-to-date assessment of the issues those moving goods are facing, across all modes of transport and parts of UK logistics. Logistics underpins the whole economy – nothing moves without it.

Using data provided by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) and the EC Directorate General for Energy, we offer information on weekly average forecourt diesel prices to help you manage fuel costs.

The Powering change report sets out the realities of the transition and the support industry needs. Drawing on survey data, interviews and national statistics, it highlights the growing gap between targets and readiness, and the barriers facing operators…

The role of Low Carbon Fuel in decarbonising HGVs, has been jointly developed with support from Zemo Partnership, Renewable Transport Fuel Association, Sustainable Business Consortium, John Lewis, Howard Tenens and XPO Logistics. The report looks at barriers to zero tailpipe emission technologies and why LCF must play a critical complementary role in the transition.

UK Logistics Network Progress Tracker: One year on from the UK Logistics Network report, this tracker reviews government progress on strengthening the UK’s critical freight corridors.

The UK Logistics Network report, produced with insight from MDS Transmodal, maps the current state of the UK’s logistics corridors, focussing on the flows on the key road and rail routes, what generates them and how they connect our ports, airports, urban and industrial centres.

The UK Logistics Network: Waterborne Freight report highlights the current contribution of waterborne freight to the UK logistics system and identifies both the opportunities for, and barriers to, its expansion.

A report to support collaboration on innovations that deliver both commercial value to the logistics sector and broader public benefits.

The Compliance Report 2025 collates the latest data from multiple key stakeholders including the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency and Department for Transport to provide an up-to-date picture of safety, vehicle and environmental compliance performance across the industry. The report discusses the latest industry trends, covering operating licensing, tests and inspections, emissions, and public inquiries amongst other topics.

Logistics UK’s report, Exploring Current and Future Energy Demand from Road Freight, produced on behalf of the Department for Transport’s Freight Energy Forum explores the estimated significant increase in electricity demand for the road freight sector as it switches to zero tailpipe emission vehicles on the pathway to net zero.

Logistics: Delivering a solution to the UK’s productivity puzzle, is a new independent report by Oxford Economics for Logistics UK, sponsored by Amazon and Volvo Trucks.

The Skills and Employment Update brings together the most recent data and provides analysis covering the key developments and trends affecting skills and employment in our sector. Analysing Q1 2025 data, this update looks at UK employment rates and identifies the latest developments relating to driver roles, various occupation salaries, as well as industry vacancies.

The Logistics Skills Review 2023 looks at the latest challenges and opportunities in addressing skills shortages across the logistics industry. Drawing on the latest data, case studies and analysis from our policy experts, this review includes key insights on the logistics sector in profile, creating opportunity, as well as future innovations.

With support from members, we have explored the realities of introducing and operating commercial electric vehicles in the current landscape of rapidly changing technology, supply side constraints and economic challenges.

This visualisation was produced as part of a Frontier Economics study commissioned by Amazon and supported by Logistics UK, examining the impact of the logistics industry and specifically its economic, social and environmental contributions.

The Skills and Employment Report is Logistics UK’s annual overview of the key developments affecting employers in our sector and the trends that affect consumers. This report brings together key insights on skills and employment in logistics based on bespoke analysis and insights from our policy experts.

The Transport Manager surveys report on the issues that affect the road haulage industry. The findings provide a comprehensive overview of transport managers’ assessment of the role they play in UK logistics and the state of the industry.

This report investigates the nature and scale of van crime, collating data from police forces across the UK which is brought together with real-life examples and insights from can users gathered through a van security survey.