Transportation and storage is the logistics sector, covering road haulage, rail, air and water transport, warehousing, and postal and courier services. Sponsored roles include logistics and warehouse managers, transport planners, supply-chain analysts and aircraft and rail engineers. Employers sponsor through the Skilled Worker route, with the strongest demand for management and engineering rather than driving roles.
There are 2,767 licensed visa sponsors in transportation & storage (logistics), with 2,941 live jobs between them. Sponsor figures come from the official Home Office register and are updated daily.
This list puts the sponsors most likely to hire first. To see which of them had the most certificates of sponsorship, read the top visa sponsors in transport & logistics.
In the year to June 2026, the Home Office granted 1,104 work visas to people applying from outside the UK for jobs with sponsors in transport & logistics. Food, drink and tobacco process operatives (SOC 8111) had the most, with 234.
Haulage and freight firms, rail and air operators, warehousing businesses and courier networks hold licences in this section. Filter the live register to transportation and storage to see which are hiring.
The Skilled Worker visa covers eligible logistics roles, which need a licensed sponsor and a salary at or above the going rate for the occupation. Logistics management, planning and engineering roles are the ones most commonly sponsored.
Large goods vehicle driving was added to the eligible occupation list to ease driver shortages, so some haulage employers can sponsor drivers on the Skilled Worker route. The job must still meet the salary rules and come from a licensed sponsor, so confirm the employer's licence and the current occupation status first.
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| 7 | 8232 Marine and waterways transport operatives | 32 |
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| 8 | 1111 Chief executives and senior officials | 31 |
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| 9 | 2455 Construction project managers and related professionals | 29 |
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| 10 | 5231 Vehicle technicians, mechanics and electricians | 29 |
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These figures cover every sponsored work route, including seasonal and creative workers. They count the workers themselves, not their dependants, and only people who applied from outside the UK.
The sponsor chooses its own industry, so it may not match the work the visa was for.
Figures from January 2026 onwards are provisional and may still change.
Source: Home Office immigration system statistics, year ending June 2026, table Occ_D02 (not accredited official statistics).