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Top 100 contractors – wins in year to February

Rank Contractor No. contracts Value
1 Morgan Sindall 146 £2,429.3m
2 Kier 82 £1,644.9m
3 Willmott Dixon 88 £1,381.1m
4 Galliford Try 64 £1,370.6m
5 Sir Robert McAlpine 29 £1,296.2m
6 Royal BAM 55 £1,270.6m
7 Wates 55 £1,121.1m
8 Mace 16 £1,078.2m
9 Bowmer & Kirkland 46 £1,028.1m
10 J Murphy 8 £905.1m
11 Bouygues 7 £827.2m
12 McLaren 13 £790.1m
13 Balfour Beatty 42 £772.9m
14 RG Group 7 £725.0m
15 Winvic 27 £712.7m
16 Glencar 25 £673.7m
17 Vinci 38 £664.5m
18 Hill Partnerships 24 £636.0m
19 Tilbury Douglas 51 £631.8m
20 Skanska 9 £622.5m
21 McLaughlin & Harvey 12 £583.9m
22 ISG 57 £565.2m
23 Graham Construction 19 £548.0m
24 GMI 20 £521.4m
25 McAleer & Rushe 8 £451.3m
26 Higgins 7 £420.9m
27 Ardmore 6 £420.3m
28 Robertson 38 £417.6m
29 Farrans 6 £404.9m
30 Caddick 28 £403.6m
31 Multiplex Europe 5 £372.0m
32 Lendlease 6 £369.2m
33 Laing O’Rourke 6 £348.7m
34 United Living 12 £331.9m
35 London Square 1 £300.0m
36 Lendlease 2 £292.6m
37 HG 7 £277.4m
38 JRL 4 £263.3m
39 Domis Construction 3 £253.0m
40 RED 12 £242.7m
41 Legacie Contracts 1 £200.0m
42 Equans 39 £195.9m
43 VolkerWessels 13 £195.8m
44 Morrison 24 £192.7m
45 Commercial Development Projects 5 £189.2m
46 Readie 11 £185.0m
47 Buckingham Group 7 £176.7m
48 Vistry 3 £168.2m
49 Esh 21 £166.0m
50 Bennett Construction 3 £165.0m
51 Mott MacDonald (JBA Bentley) 9 £163.7m
52 JJ Rhatigan & Company 3 £160.0m
53 JTRE London 1 £160.0m
54 Beard 41 £157.1m
55 REDS10 14 £155.0m
56 Clegg 15 £153.9m
57 The Torsion Group 5 £153.6m
58 Barnfield 16 £152.9m
59 Berkeley Group 2 £151.6m
60 Elements Europe 1 £150.0m
61 Multiplex 1 £150.0m
62 Lindum 43 £144.8m
63 Mulalley & Company 3 £144.0m
64 Dragados S.A 1 £125.0m
65 ARJ 9 £123.6m
66 Henry Boot 11 £123.4m
67 Jones Brothers 9 £119.7m
68 J.J. Rhatigan & Co 2 £115.0m
69 Keepmoat 8 £114.0m
70 Black & Veatch 1 £109.5m
71 MTX Contracts 10 £108.7m
72 RG Carter 15 £107.7m
73 Marbank Construction 12 £104.9m
74 Darwin Group 8 £104.3m
75 SDC 3 £103.7m
76 TanRo 10 £103.4m
77 FI Construction 3 £103.0m
78 Durkan 2 £102.7m
79 Deconstruct (UK) t/a The De Group UK 5 £101.0m
80 Knight Build 2 £100.6m
81 Newry Construction 1 £100.0m
82 Gilbert – Ash 4 £99.1m
83 Russells Construction 5 £99.0m
84 Magrock 8 £98.5m
85 Octavius Infrastructure 3 £98.2m
86 Novus Renewable Services 1 £97.5m
87 GF Tomlinson 18 £97.0m
88 Vermont 2 £95.0m
89 Jenner 8 £94.8m
90 Bugler 8 £94.6m
91 Parkway 11 £90.9m
92 Lawrence Baker 8 £90.5m
93 IB Vogt GmbH 2 £89.9m
94 JT Mackley & Company 3 £89.3m
95 Barnes Construction 19 £86.1m
96 Thomas Johnstone 5 £85.6m
97 MCS 8 £85.1m
98 Barhale 12 £84.6m
99 John Sisk 7 £83.1m
100 OCU Group 3 £80.6m

Top 50 contractors – wins in February

Rank Contractor No. contracts Value
1 J Murphy 3 £673.8m
2 Bouygues 1 £672.3m
3 Morgan Sindall 11 £549.2m
4 Kier 5 £479.9m
5 Skanska 1 £200.0m
6 Domis Construction 1 £195.0m
7 Willmott Dixon 8 £172.3m
8 United Living 1 £160.0m
9 Multiplex 1 £150.0m
10 Graham Construction 2 £130.5m
11 HG 1 £130.0m
12 Winvic 6 £105.4m
13 Galliford Try 5 £99.4m
14 GMI 1 £88.0m
15 RG Group 1 £71.0m
16 BCEGI 1 £67.0m
17 Higgins 1 £60.0m
18 Mace 1 £50.0m
19 Octavius Infrastructure 1 £46.2m
20 Bugler 2 £45.0m
21 Wates 2 £42.8m
22 Royal BAM 3 £41.7m
23 Barhale 3 £37.3m
24 Bowmer & Kirkland 1 £35.8m
25 Caddick 2 £32.2m
26 Edgewater Contracts & Specialist Joinery 2 £32.2m
27 McLaren 1 £30.5m
28 CField Construction 1 £30.0m
29 CL Projects UK 1 £30.0m
30 ISG 4 £29.8m
31 Vinci 2 £27.5m
32 TanRo 2 £27.3m
33 Sir Robert McAlpine 2 £27.2m
34 Magrock 2 £27.0m
35 ARJ 1 £25.0m
36 Vistry 2 £25.0m
37 Lovell Partnerships 1 £24.0m
38 Integrated Health Projects 4 £23.0m
39 Esh 3 £20.8m
40 Barnfield 3 £20.7m
41 Morrison 2 £19.7m
42 Kind & Company (Builders) 1 £18.5m
43 Gillespies LLP 1 £18.4m
44 Beard 4 £17.9m
45 Darwin Group 1 £17.3m
46 Mildren 1 £17.0m
47 Adderstone Group 1 £15.6m
48 Amiri 2 £15.0m
49 Deconstruct (UK) t/a The De Group UK 1 £15.0m
50 Merit Holdings 1 £15.0m

Top 50 clients – awards in February

Rank Client No. awards Value
1 Department for Transport 2 £1,344.7m
2 Scottish Prison Services 2 £400.2m
3 Citigroup Head Office 1 £328.7m
4 Pace (Hills Road) Limited 1 £200.0m
5 Salboy 1 £195.0m
6 Westminster City Council 2 £190.0m
7 The Crown Estate 1 £150.0m
8 Zenobe Energy 1 £147.0m
9 Watford Borough Council 1 £136.0m
10 Avanton 1 £130.0m
11 Department For Education 57 £104.7m
12 Whittington Hospital NHS Trust 2 £100.2m
13 Thames Water 2 £91.0m
14 Trebor Developments LLP 1 £88.0m
15 Bruntwood SciTech 1 £75.0m
16 Unite Students 1 £71.0m
17 Colony Capital LLC 1 £67.0m
18 Low Carbon Limited 2 £63.0m
19 Peabody Trust 1 £60.0m
20 Police & Crime Commissioner For Hertfordshire 1 £55.0m
21 Christie Hospital NHS Trust 2 £50.0m
22 Knight Dragon Developments 1 £50.0m
23 Norfolk County Council 2 £46.4m
24 DIF Capital Partners 1 £40.0m
25 Teesside University 1 £40.0m
26 FPC Electric Land Limited 1 £39.0m
27 Thames Water 3 £38.2m
28 London Borough Of Sutton 1 £38.0m
29 Tritax 1 £36.3m
30 Wilson Bowden Developments 1 £35.8m
31 Nuclear Restoration Services 3 £35.3m
32 Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council 2 £34.5m
33 Jurys Inn Hotel Group 1 £32.0m
34 Bridge Industrial UK 1 £30.5m
35 Worcestershire County Council 1 £30.5m
36 Mount St Marys Church 1 £30.3m
37 Aitchison Developments 1 £30.0m
38 Providence Gate 1 £30.0m
39 Tiger Developments 1 £30.0m
40 Metka EGN Projects Limited 1 £28.0m
41 Opdenergy UK 3 Limited 1 £28.0m
42 Pembrokeshire County Council 1 £28.0m
43 Clowes Developments 3 £27.5m
44 Goodman Logistics 2 £27.0m
45 Inspired Villages Group 1 £25.0m
46 The Peel Group 1 £25.0m
47 St Anne’s Hospice 1 £24.5m
48 Canford Environmental 1 £24.0m
49 Wakefield & District Housing 1 £24.0m
50 Cardiff County Council 2 £23.4m

Top 100 clients - awards in year to February

Rank Client No. awards Value
1 Department for Transport 4 £1,361.2m
2 Department For Education 240 £1,228.6m
3 Drax Power 3 £490.0m
4 Argent Group 4 £475.0m
5 Gloucestershire County Council 7 £406.8m
6 LS Lavington Street 1 £400.0m
7 Land Securities Group 3 £386.0m
8 FCC Environment 1 £350.0m
9 BAE Systems 8 £331.8m
10 Citigroup Head Office 1 £328.7m
11 London Borough of Hackney 16 £301.9m
12 Ellison Oxford 2 £300.6m
13 Alcemi 1 £300.0m
14 First Panattoni 5 £274.2m
15 London Borough of Ealing 7 £268.1m
16 Cumbria County Council 30 £263.1m
17 Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian 1 £250.0m
18 London Borough Of Haringey 6 £242.8m
19 Force 9 Energy Partners Llp 1 £240.0m
20 Department Of Health 20 £202.9m
21 City of London Corporation 21 £201.2m
22 BBC 1 £200.0m
23 Brockwell Energy Limited 1 £200.0m
24 Legacie Developments 1 £200.0m
25 Harwell Science & Innovation Campus 4 £198.6m
26 London Borough Of Southwark 8 £198.5m
27 Associated British Ports 8 £182.8m
28 Fabrix Capital 1 £180.0m
29 Anglian Water 7 £172.0m
30 Grosvenor Four Ashes 6 £170.3m
31 London Borough of Brent 10 £169.1m
32 Clarion Housing Group 6 £167.8m
33 FI Real Estate Management Fifedale Trading 5 £160.4m
34 LSV UK I CPC Propco 2 £160.0m
35 Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council 3 £158.0m
36 Eutopia Homes Limited 2 £156.7m
37 Great Portland Estates 2 £144.0m
38 Leicestershire County Council 12 £138.3m
39 Legal & General 9 £135.0m
40 IQ Student Accommodation 2 £131.9m
41 East Riding Of Yorkshire Council 27 £131.9m
42 Avanton 1 £130.0m
43 Commercial Development Projects 4 £128.8m
44 3R Energy Solutions 1 £126.0m
45 Fusion Residential Fusion Students 2 £126.0m
46 AMP Energy Services 3 £120.4m
47 Corporate Officers of the House of Lords & House of Commons 1 £120.0m
48 Clowes Developments 11 £118.9m
49 Henry Boot 11 £114.7m
50 Countess of Chester Hospital 2 £113.0m
51 Cornwall County Council 17 £107.9m
52 Kings Lynn & West Norfolk Council 2 £103.2m
53 Galliford Try 2 £102.6m
54 Fife Council 20 £102.0m
55 Inspired Villages Group 4 £102.0m
56 Hub Residential 2 £101.2m
57 Glenbrook 1 £100.2m
58 Baola Properties 1 £100.0m
59 Bricks Group 2 £100.0m
60 Essential Living (Warlingham) 1 £100.0m
61 Leeds Bradford International Airport 1 £100.0m
62 Astra Zeneca 2 £99.0m
63 BayWa r.e. UK 2 £97.9m
64 Durham County Council 17 £97.8m
65 Cambridgeshire County Council 12 £97.1m
66 Aldi 35 £96.1m
67 City of Edinburgh Council 14 £95.8m
68 London Borough of Hillingdon 20 £94.9m
69 Environment Agency 33 £93.1m
70 Greenwich Builds 1 £92.7m
71 Cardiff County Council 18 £92.4m
72 DIF Capital Partners 2 £89.9m
73 Guildford Borough Council 6 £86.9m
74 Enviromena Asset Management UK 4 £84.9m
75 DEFRA 22 £83.4m
76 Eren Holding 1 £80.0m
77 Dominvs Living 2 £79.4m
78 Kier 7 £78.8m
79 Canmoor Developments 4 £77.7m
80 Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council 14 £77.6m
81 Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust 4 £77.0m
82 Bruntwood SciTech 2 £76.0m
83 High Speed Two (HS2) 16 £75.8m
84 Marco Investments 1 £75.6m
85 Exagen 1 £75.0m
86 Low Carbon 2 £71.9m
87 Central Bedfordshire Council 24 £70.7m
88 First Street Developments (Ask Property Development) 1 £70.6m
89 Heathrow Airport 1 £70.0m
90 Derby City Council 9 £69.6m
91 Canford Environmental 2 £69.0m
92 Birchgrove Services Llp 1 £68.0m
93 Harworth Estates 5 £68.0m
94 East Wick and Sweetwater 1 £68.0m
95 Colony Capital LLC 1 £67.0m
96 Essex County Council 11 £66.5m
97 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council 22 £66.4m
98 Linc Cymru Housing Association 4 £66.1m
99 ES Suffolk Birmingham 1 £65.0m
100 Jurys Inn Hotel Group 2 £65.0m
101 Dart River London 4 £63.5m

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Contractor payment records

Payment performance – collated by Build UK

Average payment days

% not paid to terms

% paid within 60 days

Amey

15

19

98

ISG

15

21

98

Costain

18

9

99

Osborne

19

34

95

Lendlease

21

0

100

Ferrovial

21

19

97

Morgan Sindall

24

4

99

Murphy

24

13

93

Morrison Utility Services

25

15

94

Canary Wharf Contractors

26

1

99

Galliford Try

26

11

99

Mace

26

12

95

Sir Robert McAlpine

27

6

94

Bouygues

27

18

95

VolkerWessels

27

25

96

Willmott Dixon

28

11

99

FM Conway

28

11

97

Henry Boot

28

15

94

Vinci

28

16

94

BAM Nuttall

28

16

94

Laing O’Rourke

28

17

91

John Sisk & Son

29

18

97

Multiplex

30

14

93

Wates

30

20

98

McLaren Construction

30

26

100

BAM Construct

30

28

96

Bowmer and Kirkland

30

28

95

Kier

32

27

91

McLaughlin and Harvey

33

22

96

Tilbury Douglas

33

28

95

Graham Construction

34

6

96

Novus Property Solutions

36

11

95

Balfour Beatty

36

15

96

TSL

37

32

89

Seddon

38

5

97

Winvic

38

11

94

Skanska

38

28

85

Robertson Construction

38

28

94

Eurovia

46

19

85

Northstone

46

68

76

EQUANS

48

3

86

Watkin Jones

48

9

85

Colas

63

61

68

 

Freelance trades pay rates

Self-employed trades average weekly pay slipped 4.4% to £941 in April, but was 5.4% higher than a year ago.

The best-performing regions for earnings were the East Midlands and East of England where average trades pay packets top £1000.

Region

April 2023

Average

Prior month

Change

12 month

Change

North East

£757

0.8%

12.3%

North West

£907

-4.9%

5.6%

Yorks & Humbs

£919

-2.6%

6.4%

East Midlands

£1,008

-5.0%

9.2%

West Midlands

£913

-6.3%

0.4%

Wales

£974

2.7%

20.0%

East of England

£1,020

-4.6%

7.0%

London

£974

-2.6%

3.9%

South East

£948

-7.2%

1.4%