Among its haul of work last month, the private builder secured a £100m deal for developer Glenbrook’s 500 build to rent apartment development at Whitehall Riverside, Leeds.
It also secured a £40m job to build a Greek Orthodox school in North London.
Sir Robert McAlpine placed second in the April rankings with nine projects totalling £300m, spearheaded by a new academic and student accommodation building at the University of Bristol’s planned Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus.
In the rolling 12-month league rankings, the pecking order remained the same as last month with Kier well ahead of Balfour Beatty closely followed by Bouygues.
According to data compiled by Barbour ABI, the top 50 firms secured 140 jobs, estimated to be worth nearly £3bn in April around a fifth down on the previous month.