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Top 100 contractors – wins in year to November

Rank Contractor No. contracts Value
1 Mace 18 £3,177.5m
2 Strabag 1 £3,000.0m
3 Sir Robert McAlpine 21 £2,256.0m
4 Bowmer & Kirkland 66 £2,037.4m
5 Morgan Sindall 110 £1,810.8m
6 McLaren 30 £1,784.7m
7 Balfour Beatty 47 £1,698.5m
8 Kier 82 £1,553.4m
9 GRAHAM Construction 29 £1,362.1m
10 Multiplex Europe 7 £1,314.0m
11 Winvic 33 £1,241.0m
12 Bouygues 7 £1,194.0m
13 Willmott Dixon 71 £1,178.7m
14 TSL 18 £1,174.0m
15 Laing O’Rourke 5 £1,100.1m
16 Wates 37 £1,079.2m
17 Vinci 39 £928.9m
18 Bovis 5 £862.5m
19 Galliford Try 60 £849.4m
20 Royal BAM 45 £746.1m
21 McLaughlin & Harvey 18 £644.5m
22 Caddick 29 £619.1m
23 Glencar 31 £548.1m
24 John Sisk 12 £533.4m
25 Skanska 6 £507.5m
26 Ferrovial 2 £460.0m
27 McAleer & Rushe 10 £424.5m
28 Tilbury Douglas 40 £413.3m
29 Acciona 1 £400.0m
30 Lendlease 1 £350.0m
31 Robertson 34 £334.2m
32 Gilbert-Ash 7 £275.8m
33 HG 9 £272.6m
34 Ardmore 4 £260.0m
35 Costain 6 £240.8m
36 CField Construction 8 £240.3m
37 Mitie 2 £228.0m
38 RG Carter 32 £220.6m
39 Magrock 15 £217.9m
40 Clegg 10 £212.5m
41 Farrans 5 £209.0m
42 VolkerWessels 12 £201.4m
43 GMI 16 £201.2m
44 Structure Tone (UK) 5 £200.6m
45 Benniman 17 £199.7m
46 A & H 12 £194.0m
47 Aureos Highways 5 £193.2m
48 Hill Partnerships 11 £190.4m
49 Higgins Partnerships 3 £190.0m
50 Speller Metcalfe 29 £175.4m
51 Barnfield 9 £174.8m
52 RG Group 2 £173.0m
53 Andrew Scott 26 £172.4m
54 Parkway 13 £155.6m
55 Esh 17 £152.9m
56 Wills Bros Civil Engineering 1 £152.7m
57 TanRo 7 £152.3m
58 Ogilvie Construction 10 £150.0m
59 PMC 2 £149.0m
60 Formation Design & Build 2 £145.0m
61 Beard 30 £143.1m
62 Lindum 34 £139.8m
63 MCS 9 £135.6m
64 Henry Boot 9 £131.3m
65 Eric Wright 6 £130.2m
66 REDS10 10 £120.4m
67 FB Ellmer 2 £120.0m
68 8 Build 4 £119.9m
69 Neilcott 17 £118.4m
70 Wilten Construction 9 £117.4m
71 Henry Brothers 6 £117.1m
72 J Murphy 3 £117.0m
73 RJ McLeod 3 £114.1m
74 Vistry 6 £114.1m
75 Barnwood 11 £112.8m
76 SciTech Engineering 1 £111.2m
77 Clark Contracts 36 £110.3m
78 J. Murphy & Sons 5 £102.9m
79 Stepnell 20 £100.7m
80 Castle Building Services 2 £99.9m
81 Kori Construction (SAC Construction ) 7 £99.3m
82 Mildren 15 £99.3m
83 Seddon 18 £99.0m
84 MTX Contracts 8 £97.2m
85 Watkin Jones 3 £96.7m
86 Muir Construction 9 £94.7m
87 CCG 16 £89.1m
88 Faircloth Construction 18 £86.3m
89 Bect Building Contractors 5 £85.5m
90 Stainforth 11 £81.4m
91 AE Yates 14 £81.4m
92 Curo Construction 6 £81.3m
93 Myco Contracts 4 £80.6m
94 Taylor Wimpey 1 £80.0m
95 Pentaco 6 £79.4m
96 Taziker Industrial 4 £77.5m
97 Lawrence Baker 8 £76.8m
98 Amiri 8 £76.6m
99 Wynne Construction 13 £75.2m
100 EG Carter 10 £74.6m

Top 50 contractors – wins in November

Rank Contractor No. contracts Value
1 Willmott Dixon 10 £310.1m
2 Morgan Sindall 10 £240.9m
3 Balfour Beatty 2 £215.0m
4 Caddick 8 £201.9m
5 Mace 1 £200.0m
6 Structure Tone (UK) 1 £150.0m
7 Bowmer & Kirkland 6 £133.7m
8 Royal BAM 3 £111.2m
9 Aureos Highways 1 £105.0m
10 Glencar 4 £92.0m
11 REDS10 1 £80.0m
12 Vistry 3 £76.8m
13 Costain 2 £67.0m
14 Gilbert-Ash 1 £60.0m
15 Galliford Try 7 £51.3m
16 GMI 3 £46.0m
17 HG 2 £45.0m
18 Kier 5 £43.2m
19 Winvic 3 £40.5m
20 Muir Construction 2 £39.0m
21 McLaughlin & Harvey 2 £38.9m
22 Tilbury Douglas 3 £37.2m
23 MCS 2 £37.2m
24 Neilcott 3 £32.5m
25 Ascot Services 1 £31.4m
26 Kori Construction (SAC Construction ) 1 £30.0m
27 Atlantic Golf Construction 1 £28.3m
28 CField Construction 1 £28.0m
29 Barnwood 2 £25.0m
30 RG Carter 1 £25.0m
31 Thomas Sinden 1 £25.0m
32 MTX Contracts 2 £22.6m
33 LIFE Build Solutions 3 £22.3m
34 Sir Robert McAlpine 3 £22.0m
35 Vinci 3 £22.0m
36 Lovell Partnerships 1 £21.3m
37 Benniman 2 £20.7m
38 Henderson & Taylor 1 £20.0m
39 Conamar Building Services 2 £18.5m
40 Magrock 2 £18.4m
41 Deeley Construction 1 £18.0m
42 Roland Hill (Parsonby) 1 £18.0m
43 Volker Wessels 1 £17.0m
44 Beard 5 £15.5m
45 Quartzelec 1 £15.4m
46 Wynne Construction 2 £15.4m
47 CR Reynolds 1 £15.0m
48 Speller Metcalfe 1 £15.0m
49 Willshee Waste and Recycling 1 £15.0m
50 Pulse Design & Build 1 £14.6m

Top 50 clients – awards in November

Rank Client No. awards Value
1 Criterion Capital 1 £400.0m
2 Department For Education 21 £357.8m
3 West Yorkshire Combined Authority 1 £240.0m
4 Garvary Wind Farm 1 £222.0m
5 Hammerson UK Properties 1 £205.0m
6 Transport Scotland 1 £205.0m
7 Crossrail 1 £200.0m
8 Kier Property Developments 1 £200.0m
9 Manchester City Council 2 £180.0m
10 Elgin Energy 4 £151.9m
11 Alcemi 1 £150.0m
12 Barclays Bank 1 £150.0m
13 Pensana Rare Earths 1 £150.0m
14 RWE Generation UK 2 £150.0m
15 Luton Borough Council 2 £136.4m
16 Energi Generation 1 £120.0m
17 Renewable Connections Developments 2 £98.1m
18 Questpit 1 £95.2m
19 Bluefield Renewable Developments 2 £85.9m
20 Ministry of Defence 2 £85.0m
21 Platform_ 1 £78.0m
22 Coriolis Energy 1 £75.0m
23 RWE Renewables UK 1 £71.4m
24 Transport for London 1 £67.0m
25 Ministry of Justice 5 £60.1m
26 Forbes of Kingennie Country Resort 1 £60.0m
27 Royal Institute Of British Architects 1 £60.0m
28 Coventry University 1 £58.0m
29 Arpenteur Eltham 1 £52.2m
30 Amazon UK Services 1 £50.0m
31 Enviromena 1 £50.0m
32 Intergen 1 £50.0m
33 Lisbon Street Development 1 £50.0m
34 AGR Group 1 £50.0m
35 Grey Street Solar 1 £49.9m
36 NextPower Horton Wood 1 £49.9m
37 Opdenergy UK 7 1 £49.9m
38 Layer Solar Farm 1 £49.0m
39 Vistry Homes (South West) 1 £48.5m
40 Scottish Futures Trust 1 £48.1m
41 Artisan Real Estate 1 £47.9m
42 Energiekontor (UK) 2 £46.0m
43 Extra MSA Group 1 £45.0m
44 North Devon District Council 1 £45.0m
45 Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield Group 1 £45.0m
46 Stevenage Borough Council 1 £44.0m
47 British Land 1 £42.4m
48 Buccleuch Property Kettering 1 £40.2m
49 Citu Little Kelham 1 £40.0m
50 Cleveland Clinic 1 £40.0m

Top 100 clients - awards in year to November

Rank Client No. awards Value
1 United Utilities 4 £3,015.2m
2 Department For Education 113 £1,568.5m
3 Tata Steel 6 £1,288.0m
4 The British Library 2 £1,100.2m
5 National Grid 5 £967.0m
6 DEFRA 48 £959.0m
7 Ministry of Justice 47 £799.2m
8 Ministry of Defence 36 £786.8m
9 British Land 6 £748.0m
10 National Highways 86 £685.6m
11 Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust 1 £671.0m
12 Westminster City Council 12 £611.9m
13 Poole Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 6 £514.8m
14 First Panattoni 8 £509.6m
15 Cardiff County Council 14 £508.7m
16 Avalon DC 1 £500.0m
17 CO-RE 1 £500.0m
18 Obayashi Corporation 1 £500.0m
19 Therme Group 1 £450.0m
20 The University of Manchester 11 £442.0m
21 West Burton Energy 1 £435.0m
22 Network Rail 52 £420.4m
23 Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council 3 £410.5m
24 Brockton Capital LLP 1 £400.0m
25 Criterion Capital 1 £400.0m
26 Thames Water 1 £400.0m
27 Endurance Land 3 £372.0m
28 Transport Scotland 4 £371.7m
29 Aviva Investors 2 £335.0m
30 Reuben Brothers 2 £331.5m
31 BMW 3 £330.0m
32 Manchester City Council 12 £312.9m
33 Community Windpower 1 £308.0m
34 Alcemi 2 £300.0m
35 Mitsubishi Estate 1 £300.0m
36 MVV Environment Devonport 1 £300.0m
37 SSE 3 £298.5m
38 University College London 6 £283.7m
39 West Yorkshire Combined Authority 6 £283.0m
40 Luton Borough Council 7 £270.1m
41 Aberdeenshire Council 20 £264.1m
42 Summix Capital 2 £252.0m
43 Lisbon Street Development 2 £250.0m
44 The Creative District Improvement Company 1 £250.0m
45 Transport for London 12 £249.9m
46 Pace (Hills Road) 1 £242.0m
47 Hammerson UK Properties 3 £238.0m
48 Lidl 48 £230.5m
49 Secretary of State for the Home Department 1 £227.0m
50 Kier Property Developments 4 £225.6m
51 Garvary Wind Farm 1 £222.0m
52 Kirkglade 2 £220.0m
53 Lab Selkirk House 1 £220.0m
54 Lincolnshire County Council 19 £218.1m
55 Home Bargains (TJ Morris ) 14 £204.3m
56 University of Exeter 5 £201.9m
57 Crossrail 1 £200.0m
58 Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies UK 1 £200.0m
59 JP Morgan 1 £200.0m
60 Kadans Science Partner 1 £200.0m
61 Middlesbrough Development Company 1 £200.0m
62 Orkney Marine Services 1 £200.0m
63 Associated British Ports 3 £191.4m
64 University of Bristol 5 £190.6m
65 Scottish Power 10 £184.8m
66 Tritax Big Box Developments 4 £183.1m
67 First Base 1 £180.0m
68 Marylebone Cricket Club 3 £180.0m
69 Severn Trent Water 5 £178.4m
70 Elgin Energy 5 £176.9m
71 Aberdeen City Council 20 £175.2m
72 WD Contracts 1 £171.7m
73 Sizewell C 3 £171.5m
74 Newlands Developments 3 £170.0m
75 Homes England 14 £167.5m
76 Brighton & Hove City Council 12 £165.9m
77 Statkraft UK 2 £165.0m
78 RWE Renewables UK 3 £163.3m
79 Vivid Homes 7 £157.9m
80 Prosperity Developments 2 £155.6m
81 Arla Foods 4 £155.0m
82 Telford & Wrekin Borough Council 15 £152.0m
83 Barclays Bank 1 £150.0m
84 Gazeley 1 £150.0m
85 IJM Corporation 1 £150.0m
86 Pensana Rare Earths 1 £150.0m
87 RWE Generation UK 2 £150.0m
88 VREF Shaftesbury SCS 1 £150.0m
89 Wykeland Group 1 £150.0m
90 High Speed Two (HS2) 23 £148.7m
91 Greystar Europe Holdings 4 £147.0m
92 Gatwick Airport 4 £143.4m
93 Leicestershire County Council 10 £143.2m
94 Surrey County Council 15 £143.0m
95 (blank) 16 £141.3m
96 London Borough Of Haringey 8 £140.1m
97 Muse Developments 3 £137.0m
98 Bluefield Renewable Developments 3 £135.8m
99 London Borough of Bromley 15 £133.3m
100 Cambridgeshire County Council 21 £130.3m

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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%