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Top 100 contractors – wins in year to August

Rank Contractor No. contracts Value
1 Mace 26 £2,355.0m
2 Bouygues 20 £1,955.0m
3 ISG 75 £1,854.4m
4 Morgan Sindall 136 £1,744.9m
5 Balfour Beatty 46 £1,694.0m
6 Galliford Try 75 £1,638.6m
7 Royal BAM 58 £1,441.6m
8 Kier 101 £1,433.7m
9 Wates 65 £1,404.2m
10 Willmott Dixon 103 £1,326.9m
11 Sir Robert McAlpine 37 £1,255.6m
12 McLaren 21 £1,219.0m
13 Winvic 27 £1,013.4m
14 Bowmer & Kirkland 52 £978.0m
15 McLaughlin & Harvey 15 £951.9m
16 VolkerWessels 21 £791.6m
17 Vinci 53 £663.6m
18 Ardmore 3 £653.5m
19 Glencar 26 £650.9m
20 Tilbury Douglas 68 £644.1m
21 JRL 7 £620.0m
22 Hill Partnerships 19 £522.7m
23 Robertson 40 £452.0m
24 John Sisk 8 £423.6m
25 SDC 11 £363.3m
26 TSL 5 £360.6m
27 Buckingham Group 17 £330.1m
28 Lendlease 5 £327.6m
29 Domis Construction 4 £301.7m
30 Caddick 21 £296.2m
31 RG Group 6 £292.8m
32 Skanska 9 £290.5m
33 McAleer & Rushe 5 £285.5m
34 Farrans 6 £269.9m
35 Henry Construction 6 £266.0m
36 Higgins 8 £250.7m
37 FI Construction 8 £224.2m
38 Tide Construction 4 £221.7m
39 GRAHAM Construction 17 £220.4m
40 J Murphy 7 £215.7m
41 GMI 11 £213.3m
42 Russells Construction 9 £207.3m
43 RED 10 £203.3m
44 Readie 14 £200.7m
45 Multiplex Construction Europe 1 £200.0m
46 Sacyr 1 £200.0m
47 The Torsion Group 6 £191.4m
48 REDS10 16 £190.3m
49 Equans 28 £184.2m
50 Gilbert – Ash 6 £180.4m
51 Laing O’Rourke 7 £175.1m
52 Lindum 41 £163.0m
53 Commercial Development Projects 6 £157.8m
54 Eric Wright 18 £154.9m
55 Esh 16 £154.5m
56 Barnfield 16 £151.1m
57 Bennett Construction 3 £150.0m
58 Elements Europe 1 £150.0m
59 Mulalley & Company 5 £147.4m
60 HG 7 £145.6m
61 Marbank Construction 14 £142.9m
62 Berkeley Group Southall 1 £140.0m
63 Renaker Build 2 £135.0m
64 Watkin Jones 4 £133.1m
65 Mott MacDonald (JBA Bentley) 7 £132.8m
66 Knights Brown 17 £128.1m
67 Morrison 15 £125.1m
68 Vistry 6 £123.8m
69 Multiplex Europe 1 £120.0m
70 Keepmoat 8 £116.8m
71 Knight Build 2 £115.0m
72 Durkan 3 £112.7m
73 Speller Metcalfe 29 £110.9m
74 Black & Veatch 1 £109.5m
75 Magrock 8 £108.4m
76 Darwin Group 7 £108.1m
77 RG Carter 17 £107.7m
78 Jones Brothers 6 £104.7m
79 TanRo 10 £103.6m
80 OCU Group 4 £101.9m
81 Beard 33 £101.4m
82 Ant Yapi (UK) 1 £100.0m
83 Elements Europe 1 £100.0m
84 IFP Construction 1 £100.0m
85 Vermont 2 £100.0m
86 A & H 7 £99.5m
87 Novus Renewable Services 1 £97.5m
88 ARJ 6 £95.6m
89 CCG 14 £94.6m
90 Luddon 17 £93.6m
91 GF Tomlinson 17 £92.5m
92 BCEGI 2 £92.0m
93 JT Mackley & Company 4 £91.5m
94 PMC 4 £90.3m
95 Story Construction 14 £89.0m
96 Clegg 6 £87.5m
97 Barnes Construction 18 £87.1m
98 Lawrence Baker 9 £86.3m
99 MCS 6 £84.7m
100 BHC 5 £84.7m

Top 50 contractors – wins in August

Rank Contractor No. contracts Value
1 Sir Robert McAlpine 3 £458.0m
2 Royal BAM 9 £312.1m
3 Morgan Sindall 15 £275.9m
4 Willmott Dixon 8 £221.0m
5 ISG 9 £186.7m
6 Kier 8 £171.2m
7 Lendlease 1 £150.0m
8 Ardmore 1 £146.0m
9 Berkeley Group Southall 1 £140.0m
10 Equans 2 £104.0m
11 RED 1 £100.0m
12 Bennett Construction 1 £100.0m
13 Bowmer & Kirkland 4 £75.7m
14 Tilbury Douglas 9 £73.4m
15 McLaren 1 £61.0m
16 Barnfield 3 £55.5m
17 Winvic 1 £55.0m
18 Statom Group 1 £50.0m
19 The Torsion Group 1 £50.0m
20 Commercial Development Projects 1 £45.8m
21 Muirden Energy 1 £45.0m
22 Knights Brown 2 £35.5m
23 Lindum 4 £34.8m
24 Global Infrastructure (Scotland) 2 £32.0m
25 ARJ 1 £30.0m
26 JJ Rhatigan & Company 1 £30.0m
27 Marbank Construction 2 £29.4m
28 Galliford Try 7 £29.1m
29 GRAHAM Construction 2 £28.3m
30 Gilbert – Ash 1 £28.0m
31 Collins Construction 1 £26.0m
32 AmcoGiffen 2 £25.9m
33 8 Build 2 £25.0m
34 Darwin Group 1 £25.0m
35 McLaughlin & Harvey 1 £20.0m
36 Meldrum 1 £20.0m
37 RG Carter 1 £20.0m
38 Henry Boot 3 £19.9m
39 Flatley Construction 1 £19.0m
40 RE:GEN Group 1 £18.0m
41 Lawrence Baker 1 £17.5m
42 Alumno Student 1 £16.5m
43 Adderstone Group 1 £16.2m
44 Henry Brothers 2 £16.1m
45 AE Yates 1 £16.0m
46 Brims Construction 1 £15.2m
47 BAC Woodbridge 1 £15.0m
48 Geda Construction 1 £15.0m
49 GMI 2 £15.0m
50 O’Keefe Construction 1 £15.0m

Top 50 clients – awards in August

Rank Client No. awards Value
1 Museum of London 1 £437.0m
2 Department For Education 12 £179.3m
3 Southwark Charities 1 £160.0m
4 Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council 1 £150.0m
5 XLCC 1 £150.0m
6 City of London Corporation 1 £146.0m
7 London Borough of Ealing 1 £140.0m
8 West Suffolk Council 1 £140.0m
9 Grosvenor Four Ashes 1 £100.0m
10 Present Made 1 £100.0m
11 Tees Valley Combined Authority 1 £100.0m
12 University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust Trust Headquarters 1 £97.0m
13 Fife Council 1 £85.0m
14 Scottish & Southern Energy Scottish Hydro Electric 1 £85.0m
15 Eren Holding 1 £80.0m
16 Notting Hill Genesis 2 £72.5m
17 Canmoor Developments 3 £72.2m
18 Pegasus House & Nuffield House Nominee 1 1 £61.0m
19 Peel L&P Investments (North) 1 £55.0m
20 Borough Council of Kings Lynn & West Norfolk 1 £51.6m
21 Monte Blackburn 2 £50.5m
22 Bridgend College of Technology 1 £50.0m
23 Reef Estates /UrbanR 1 £50.0m
24 Taylor Grange Developments 1 £50.0m
25 BayWa r.e. UK 1 £48.0m
26 Network Rail 7 £47.8m
27 Commercial Development Projects 1 £45.8m
28 Muirden Energy 1 £45.0m
29 Cambridgeshire County Council 1 £40.0m
30 Cardiff County Council 2 £36.0m
31 Echelon Data Centres 1 £35.0m
32 Ministry of Defence 9 £34.6m
33 National Highways 6 £34.2m
34 The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea 1 £32.0m
35 Inspired Villages Group 1 £30.0m
36 Lincoln City Council 1 £30.0m
37 Stark Energy 1 £30.0m
38 Tepbrook Properties 1 £30.0m
39 Ceredigion County Council 1 £30.0m
40 West Herts College 1 £28.0m
41 Union Property Services 1 £26.0m
42 Central Bedfordshire Council 2 £25.4m
43 EDF 1 £25.0m
44 North Bristol NHS Trust Trust Headquarters 1 £25.0m
45 Clarion Housing Group 1 £22.9m
46 Associated British Ports 2 £21.2m
47 Thames Water Utilities 1 £21.0m
48 Tolworth Hospital 1 £20.6m
49 Durham University 2 £20.3m
50 Assura 1 £20.0m

Top 100 clients - awards in year to August

Rank Client No. awards Value
1 National Highways 34 £1,678.6m
2 Leeds City Council 33 £1,570.6m
3 Department For Education 118 £1,122.6m
4 Ministry of Defence 44 £831.7m
5 Network Rail 78 £634.4m
6 First Panattoni 7 £565.6m
7 Transport for London 13 £528.1m
8 MARK 1 £500.0m
9 Tees Valley 1 £500.0m
10 Drax Power 3 £490.0m
11 Tata Steel 1 £480.0m
12 Simten Developments 1 £450.0m
13 Corporate Officers of the House of Lords & House of Commons 3 £442.3m
14 Museum of London 2 £439.0m
15 Tees Valley Combined Authority 6 £413.7m
16 LS Lavington Street 1 £400.0m
17 Yondr Group 1 £400.0m
18 Land Securities Group 3 £383.0m
19 Fabrix Capital 2 £360.0m
20 FCC Environment 1 £350.0m
21 Peabody Trust 6 £322.3m
22 DP World 2 £314.5m
23 BAE Systems 7 £308.6m
24 Ministry of Justice 62 £304.2m
25 Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Trust 2 £301.0m
26 Britaniacrest Recycling 1 £300.0m
27 Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust 2 £299.4m
28 Salboy 3 £296.0m
29 London Borough of Ealing 6 £279.1m
30 Segro 6 £278.8m
31 London Borough Of Haringey 8 £277.4m
32 Cumbria County Council 37 £270.1m
33 University of Bristol 6 £266.2m
34 Royal London Asset Management 5 £264.2m
35 Middlesbrough Borough Council 13 £252.2m
36 Burmeister & Wain Scandinavian Contractor A/S 1 £250.0m
37 FI Real Estate Management Fifedale Trading 10 £249.5m
38 High Speed Two (HS2) 27 £233.1m
39 City of London Corporation 22 £229.0m
40 Cardiff County Council 24 £228.8m
41 Greystar Europe Holdings 2 £220.0m
42 Urbanest 1 £220.0m
43 Tritax 6 £213.9m
44 Department Of Health 12 £207.5m
45 Gloucestershire County Council 8 £207.3m
46 Velindre NHS Trust 2 £200.1m
47 Aston Martin Cognizant F1 1 £200.0m
48 Brockwell Energy Limited 1 £200.0m
49 Court Collaboration 1 £200.0m
50 ExCeL London 1 £200.0m
51 Great Lakes UK 1 £200.0m
52 J G Digbeth 1 £200.0m
53 Reuben Brothers 2 £200.0m
54 Kadans Science Partner 2 UK 2 £198.0m
55 One Heritage Property Developments 2 £197.0m
56 Harworth Estates 10 £190.2m
57 The West of England Combined Authority 1 £187.6m
58 Northumbrian Water 6 £183.2m
59 Be First Regeneration 2 £176.0m
60 Grosvenor Four Ashes 5 £170.0m
61 XLCC 2 £170.0m
62 Portsmouth Water 3 £168.0m
63 Legacie Developments 1 £165.0m
64 Harwell Science & Innovation Campus 3 £163.9m
65 Environment Agency 45 £160.2m
66 Capital & Centric 3 £160.0m
67 Grainger 2 £160.0m
68 Oxford Science Park 1 £160.0m
69 Southwark Charities 1 £160.0m
70 Eutopia Homes Limited 2 £156.7m
71 Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council 3 £153.0m
72 Aviva 2 £150.1m
73 Access Self Storage Solutions 1 £150.0m
74 Home Group 1 £150.0m
75 TS Angel Square 1 £150.0m
76 London Borough of Hackney 12 £149.1m
77 GLP Technology 3 £148.4m
78 Westminster City Council 11 £146.4m
79 West Suffolk Council 7 £141.9m
80 Henry Boot 11 £139.6m
81 Curzon De Vere 2 £134.6m
82 Durham County Council 21 £133.4m
83 Great Portland Estates 2 £133.0m
84 Commercial Development Projects 3 £132.8m
85 Sunderland City Council 21 £132.6m
86 Leicestershire County Council 8 £131.8m
87 JDR Cable Systems 1 £130.0m
88 Manchester (Port Street) 1 £130.0m
89 Woolgate Exchange Unit Trust 1 £130.0m
90 The Guinness Partnership 3 £129.1m
91 Legal & General 12 £128.8m
92 Scottish Power 4 £128.0m
93 Orkney Islands Council 9 £126.2m
94 3R Energy Solutions 1 £126.0m
95 Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board 2 £125.0m
96 Coventry & Warwickshire Development Partnership 3 £124.0m
97 London Borough of Brent 8 £122.7m
98 Infinergy 2 £121.5m
99 North Yorkshire County Council 19 £120.9m
100 North Ayrshire Council 18 £120.5m

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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%