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Top 100 contractors – wins in year to January

Rank Contractor No. contracts Value
1 Morgan Sindall 137 £2,537.9m
2 Kier 90 £2,089.9m
3 Sir Robert McAlpine 22 £1,951.7m
4 Multiplex Europe 6 £1,600.0m
5 Balfour Beatty 45 £1,309.9m
6 Galliford Try 63 £1,248.2m
7 Bowmer & Kirkland 56 £1,221.4m
8 Royal BAM 50 £1,199.1m
9 Willmott Dixon 68 £1,180.3m
10 Winvic 34 £1,172.9m
11 Bouygues 9 £1,151.8m
12 Wates 29 £943.4m
13 John Sisk 12 £908.3m
14 Mace 15 £841.4m
15 GRAHAM Construction 24 £841.4m
16 J Murphy 9 £804.4m
17 JRL 7 £798.9m
18 Skanska 6 £737.0m
19 Lendlease 6 £700.2m
20 McLaughlin & Harvey 14 £641.7m
21 HG 9 £632.3m
22 Caddick 29 £470.2m
23 Vinci 46 £439.3m
24 McLaren 10 £436.6m
25 Tilbury Douglas 51 £433.9m
26 Glencar 23 £419.8m
27 Hill Partnerships 21 £413.9m
28 Ardmore 4 £410.0m
29 RG Group 8 £352.7m
30 TSL 8 £337.2m
31 Costain 10 £330.2m
32 Barhale 6 £329.9m
33 Robertson 39 £309.0m
34 GMI 11 £307.0m
35 Octavius Infrastructure 8 £295.4m
36 CR Construction (U.K) Company 3 £285.0m
37 Domis Construction 3 £283.0m
38 BCEGI 2 £269.5m
39 Colas 2 £252.0m
40 McAleer & Rushe 3 £242.0m
41 8 Build 16 £228.6m
42 VolkerWessels 16 £225.5m
43 Beard 54 £217.2m
44 CField Construction 6 £216.0m
45 S1 Developments 1 £209.0m
46 Keady Construction 6 £202.2m
47 Vistry 6 £194.7m
48 A & H 18 £192.5m
49 United Living 8 £191.8m
50 Benniman 10 £186.6m
51 Sacyr 1 £180.0m
52 Eric Wright 19 £176.9m
53 Mildren 10 £176.3m
54 Vistry 12 £175.7m
55 Ryebridge 3 £175.6m
56 SDC Construction Group 8 £172.2m
57 Stepnell 30 £170.5m
58 Bouygues 1 £170.0m
59 TanRo 9 £164.6m
60 The Torsion Group 3 £162.9m
61 Magrock 11 £159.2m
62 AmcoGiffen 7 £157.1m
63 Neilcott 23 £150.7m
64 RG Carter 25 £143.7m
65 Berkeley Group 2 £140.1m
66 Faithdean 4 £138.2m
67 Elliott Group 3 £135.2m
68 Mount Anvil Construction 1 £133.0m
69 Speller Metcalfe 27 £131.7m
70 Wilten Construction 13 £126.3m
71 Ant Yapi (UK) 2 £125.0m
72 Laing O’Rourke 2 £123.1m
73 Bugler 9 £122.3m
74 Curo Construction 7 £116.5m
75 Gilbert – Ash 6 £116.5m
76 Canary Wharf Contractors 1 £114.7m
77 RED 9 £114.5m
78 Commercial Development Projects 6 £112.1m
79 Hobson & Porter 20 £111.2m
80 Lindum 47 £110.5m
81 Darwin Group 8 £109.4m
82 Britcon (Scunthorpe) 17 £101.6m
83 Wynne Construction 11 £101.1m
84 Henry Brothers 12 £99.6m
85 Luddon 37 £99.4m
86 Clark Contracts 25 £96.7m
87 Kori Construction (SAC Construction ) 7 £95.8m
88 Story Contracting 14 £92.4m
89 ROK Construction 2 £92.0m
90 Thomas Sinden 15 £91.6m
91 BlueEarth Construction 2 £91.4m
92 OCU Group 2 £90.0m
93 Harmonix Construction 4 £88.5m
94 Barnfield 9 £88.2m
95 JJ Rhatigan & Company 1 £88.0m
96 Morrison 17 £86.4m
97 Morris Property 7 £85.5m
98 Higgins 2 £85.0m
99 Ogilvie Construction 12 £82.5m
100 MCS 9 £81.3m

Top 50 contractors – wins in January

Rank Contractor No. contracts Value
1 Sir Robert McAlpine 1 £1,250.0m
2 Morgan Sindall 17 £372.0m
3 McLaughlin & Harvey 2 £300.0m
4 Mace 1 £281.0m
5 GRAHAM Construction 2 £200.8m
6 Bouygues 1 £170.0m
7 CField Construction 3 £141.0m
8 Winvic 4 £136.4m
9 Galliford Try 4 £114.9m
10 8 Build 2 £100.9m
11 Bowmer & Kirkland 3 £84.7m
12 Robertson 6 £81.4m
13 RG Group 1 £73.0m
14 Magrock 3 £65.0m
15 Myco Contracts 2 £60.6m
16 J Murphy 1 £60.0m
17 McLaren 1 £60.0m
18 TSL 3 £57.2m
19 VolkerWessels 1 £55.0m
20 Willmott Dixon 4 £48.4m
21 Balfour Beatty 3 £40.0m
22 John Paul Construction 1 £40.0m
23 Royal BAM 5 £40.0m
24 Kier 3 £38.1m
25 RG Carter 5 £37.8m
26 Clark Contracts 7 £36.7m
27 Ellmer Construction 2 £35.0m
28 A & H 1 £34.7m
29 Tilbury Douglas 3 £33.5m
30 Glencar 3 £33.2m
31 Neilcott 3 £30.4m
32 Skillcrown Homes 1 £30.0m
33 Henry Brothers 2 £29.9m
34 Vinci 3 £28.4m
35 Ogilvie Construction 3 £28.0m
36 Benniman 3 £27.7m
37 Stepnell 5 £26.7m
38 Heron Bros 2 £24.3m
39 Leck Construction 1 £23.5m
40 George Wilson Developments 1 £23.0m
41 HYM Joinery & Contracting 1 £22.0m
42 Story Contracting 2 £20.6m
43 Caddick 3 £20.3m
44 Curo Construction 1 £20.0m
45 Fairview 1 £20.0m
46 GMI 1 £20.0m
47 Marney Construction 1 £19.3m
48 Jackson Civil Engineering 1 £19.0m
49 AEDI Construction 2 £18.6m
50 Thomas Sinden 1 £18.5m

Top 50 clients – awards in January

Rank Client No. Awards Value
1 Tata Steel 1 £1,250.0m
2 BMW 2 £300.0m
3 University College London (Main Office) 2 £283.0m
4 Cardiff County Council 3 £200.3m
5 First Base 1 £180.0m
6 University of Bristol 1 £175.0m
7 Associated British Ports 1 £170.0m
8 Statkraft UK 1 £125.0m
9 Department For Education 10 £110.1m
10 Mission Street 1 £100.0m
11 Tri7 1 £100.0m
12 Wigan Council 2 £90.3m
13 Tritax 3 £88.0m
14 Newlands Developments 1 £80.0m
15 Unite Group 1 £73.0m
16 LS Estates 1 £65.0m
17 Royal High School Preservation Trust 1 £65.0m
18 Curlew Alternatives Property 1 £60.0m
19 O & H Properties 1 £60.0m
20 Scottish Government 1 £60.0m
21 Homes England 2 £59.9m
22 Haringey Council 1 £54.0m
23 Westridge Village 1 £49.4m
24 Cassidy Group 2 £49.0m
25 Conrad Energy 2 £45.2m
26 Rolls Royce Motor Cars 1 £42.0m
27 J Mould Reading 1 £40.0m
28 Microsoft UK 1 £40.0m
29 Shetland Islands Council 1 £40.0m
30 Hampshire County Council 5 £39.5m
31 Aequitas Estates Midlands No. 2 1 £34.7m
32 Low Carbon Solar Park 20 1 £31.0m
33 Aberdeen City Council 2 £30.0m
34 Aitch Group 1 £30.0m
35 Golding Homes 1 £30.0m
36 Indurent/St Modwen Developments 1 £30.0m
37 Nottinghamshire County Council 1 £28.6m
38 Love Wolverton 1 £28.0m
39 Legal & General 3 £27.7m
40 Yondr Group 1 £25.1m
41 Ministry of Defence 4 £25.0m
42 Chancerygate 1 £25.0m
43 Telford & Wrekin Borough Council 2 £24.5m
44 Westmorland & Furness Council 4 £24.4m
45 George Wilson Developments 1 £23.0m
46 City of London Corporation 1 £22.5m
47 Aldwark Manor Hotel 1 £22.0m
48 London Borough of Bromley 1 £21.5m
49 Indurent Logistics Propco A5 1 £20.7m
50 Wheatley Housing Group Glasgow Housing Association 1 £20.3m

Top 100 clients - awards in year to January

Rank Client No. awards Value
1 Associated British Ports 8 £1,886.8m
2 National Grid 9 £1,589.8m
3 Department For Education 169 £1,480.2m
4 Department for Transport 2 £1,344.7m
5 Tata Steel 2 £1,258.0m
6 Transport for West Midlands 7 £759.9m
7 Thurrock Power 1 £645.0m
8 Ministry of Justice 41 £625.4m
9 Agratas 1 £500.0m
10 CO-RE 1 £500.0m
11 National Highways 75 £487.5m
12 Ministry of Defence 29 £449.1m
13 University of Kent 7 £428.3m
14 Scottish Prison Services 14 £405.3m
15 Southwark Charities 1 £400.0m
16 The Clothworks Company 1 £400.0m
17 Manchester City Football Club 3 £350.0m
18 BMW 4 £335.0m
19 Citigroup Head Office 1 £328.7m
20 Transport Scotland 3 £326.0m
21 University of Glasgow 3 £312.9m
22 Network Rail 38 £310.3m
23 Brockton Capital LLP 1 £300.0m
24 SSE 2 £296.0m
25 University College London (Main Office) 3 £293.0m
26 Environment Agency 43 £279.3m
27 First Panattoni 6 £275.2m
28 Cardiff County Council 17 £274.7m
29 Reef Group 2 £263.0m
30 Adur & Worthing Borough Council 4 £255.4m
31 Landsec 2 £253.0m
32 Tritax 9 £242.6m
33 Zenobe Energy 2 £237.0m
34 McLaren Property 4 £223.7m
35 Endurance Land 3 £220.0m
36 British Land 5 £220.0m
37 The Far East Consortium (Manchester) 1 £210.0m
38 Parabola Edinburgh 1 £209.0m
39 Whitbread 3 £203.6m
40 Greystar Europe Holdings 3 £203.0m
41 Chinese Embassy 1 £202.5m
42 Lasalle Investment Management 2 £202.4m
43 Capital Real Estate 1 £200.0m
44 Juramia 1 £200.0m
45 Nigg Energy Park 1 £200.0m
46 Orkney Marine Services 1 £200.0m
47 Pace (Hills Road) Limited 1 £200.0m
48 University of Exeter 2 £199.0m
49 Salboy 1 £195.0m
50 Westminster City Council 6 £194.1m
51 Warner Bros 2 £191.3m
52 Thames Water 8 £186.7m
53 First Base 1 £180.0m
54 Velindre NHS Trust 1 £180.0m
55 Retirement Villages Group 4 £178.6m
56 University of Bristol 3 £175.6m
57 Prologis 7 £174.6m
58 Oxfordshire County Council 15 £172.6m
59 Wykeland Group 5 £171.9m
60 The Crown Estate 6 £171.5m
61 London Borough of Camden 8 £169.9m
62 Platform_ 1 £165.0m
63 London Borough of Ealing 4 £163.2m
64 Innova Renewables 3 £162.0m
65 Statkraft UK 3 £160.0m
66 Telehouse International 1 £158.0m
67 EDF 2 £152.5m
68 Access Self Storage Solutions 1 £150.0m
69 Alcemi 1 £150.0m
70 Crystal Palace Football Club 1 £150.0m
71 Google 1 £150.0m
72 Stanhope 1 £150.0m
73 Segro 3 £147.0m
74 Art-Invest Real Estate Management UK 1 £145.6m
75 Milton Keynes Council 11 £141.3m
76 Bristol City Council 36 £139.9m
77 Cambridgeshire County Council 32 £137.7m
78 Mountpark Logistics 4 £137.1m
79 Watford Borough Council 1 £136.0m
80 Cityheart 1 £135.0m
81 Cornwall County Council 22 £133.7m
82 University of East Anglia 12 £133.0m
83 Bargate Property Llp 1 £132.0m
84 VPI Immingham LLP 1 £130.7m
85 London Borough Of Tower Hamlets 6 £130.5m
86 Lloyds Bank 7 £130.3m
87 Avanton 1 £130.0m
88 Grainger 1 £130.0m
89 Lazari Investments 1 £130.0m
90 Fife Council 17 £127.9m
91 Essex County Council 10 £126.9m
92 Ark Data Centres 1 £125.0m
93 RWE Renewables UK 2 £121.9m
94 Stawson Holdings 1 £121.0m
95 Government Property Agency 2 £120.8m
96 Manchester Life Development Company 2 £120.5m
97 Old Park Lane Management 1 £120.0m
98 Southwark GP Nominee 1 1 £120.0m
99 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council 25 £118.7m
100 Lidl 31 £117.4m

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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%