Diesel, ultra-low sulphur · per litre · 2025 Verified
What this series measures changed. ONS changed what this series measures in February 2000: earlier figures price Derv, later ones ultra-low sulphur diesel. The two ran level across the switch, so the history is continuous — but a comparison spanning February 2000 is not strictly like-for-like.
£1.43in January 2025 — about £1.52 in today's money.
- Price in 2025£1.43
- Same money today£1.52
- Estimated price today · projected from January 2025£1.55
- Change since 2025+8%
Priced in working time
- A week's pay in 2025 bought · average weekly earnings were £725.00506 litres
- A week's pay today buys · at £749.00 (2026) · price estimated483 litres
Observed price divided by the observed wage for the same year — nothing here is back-cast. See the average earnings record →
Price history
Record & method
This is an observed price. The Office for National Statistics recorded it in January 2025; we have not adjusted the figure.
- Source
- Office for National Statistics (ONS), dataset MM23. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Series title
- RPI: Ave price - Ultra low sulphur diesel, per litre (Derv prior to Feb 2000)
- Series
- CZML
- Observed
- January 2025
- Coverage
- January 1977 – January 2025
- Adjusted by
- CDKO · 1545.3 → 1643.1 (June 2026)
- License
- Open Government Licence v3.0