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Top 100 contractors – wins in year to December

Rank Contractor No. contracts Value
1 Morgan Sindall 131 £2,298m
2 Kier 93 £2,276m
3 Multiplex Europe 8 £1,636m
4 Balfour Beatty 47 £1,473m
5 Royal BAM 48 £1,411m
6 Willmott Dixon 73 £1,244m
7 Galliford Try 63 £1,192m
8 Bouygues 10 £1,173m
9 Bowmer & Kirkland 56 £1,163m
10 Winvic 33 £1,122m
11 Wates 32 £1,011m
12 Lendlease 8 £993m
13 Sir Robert McAlpine 25 £968m
14 John Sisk 10 £904m
15 J Murphy 8 £744m
16 Skanska 5 £732m
17 Graham Construction 24 £723m
18 Caddick 35 £641m
19 TSL 6 £630m
20 HG 9 £625m
21 Mace 15 £573m
22 Vinci 44 £547m
23 RG Group 8 £465m
24 McLaren 11 £423m
25 Tilbury Douglas 49 £422m
26 Ardmore 4 £410m
27 Hill Partnerships 19 £404m
28 JTRE London 1 £400m
29 Glencar 20 £387m
30 Octavius Infrastructure 9 £342m
31 McLaughlin & Harvey 12 £342m
32 Costain 10 £330m
33 Barhale 6 £326m
34 CR Construction 4 £323m
35 JRL 5 £319m
36 GMI 11 £305m
37 McAleer & Rushe 4 £302m
38 London Square 1 £300m
39 Domis Construction 3 £283m
40 BCEGI 2 £270m
41 Colas 2 £252m
42 Beard 56 £239m
43 Robertson 34 £231m
44 S1 Developments 1 £209m
45 The Torsion Group 4 £203m
46 Benniman 10 £202m
47 Keady Construction 6 £202m
48 Vistry 6 £195m
49 United Living 10 £194m
50 Mildren 12 £187m
51 Eric Wright 20 £187m
52 Sacyr 1 £180m
53 Ryebridge 3 £176m
54 Vistry 11 £175m
55 VolkerWessels 15 £171m
56 AmcoGiffen 8 £167m
57 TanRo 9 £165m
58 SDC Construction Group 6 £163m
59 A & H 17 £158m
60 Elliott Group 4 £152m
61 Bugler 11 £149m
62 8 Build 16 £149m
63 Stepnell 26 £145m
64 Berkeley Group 2 £140m
65 Faithdean 4 £138m
66 RED 11 £136m
67 Mount Anvil Construction 1 £133m
68 Speller Metcalfe 25 £127m
69 Wilten Construction 13 £126m
70 MTX Contracts 9 £125m
71 Ant Yapi (UK) 2 £125m
72 Dragados S.A 1 £125m
73 Higgins 3 £125m
74 Lindum 48 £124m
75 Laing O’Rourke 2 £123m
76 Neilcott 20 £120m
77 Gilbert – Ash 6 £117m
78 RG Carter 21 £116m
79 Canary Wharf Contractors 1 £115m
80 Commercial Development Projects 6 £112m
81 Darwin Group 8 £109m
82 Britcon (Scunthorpe) 18 £107m
83 Wynne Construction 11 £101m
84 Magrock 9 £100m
85 Curo Construction 6 £97m
86 Kori Construction 7 £96m
87 Hobson & Porter 17 £94m
88 ROK Construction 2 £92m
89 Mott MacDonald/JBA Bentley 6 £91m
90 MCS 10 £90m
91 OCU Group 2 £90m
92 Luddon 36 £89m
93 Harmonix Construction 4 £89m
94 BlueEarth Construction 1 £88m
95 JJ Rhatigan & Company 1 £88m
96 Morrison 18 £87m
97 Barnfield 9 £86m
98 Parkway 7 £84m
99 Jenner 7 £83m
100 ANDRITZ 1 £80m

Top 50 contractors – wins in December

Rank Contractor No. contracts Value
1 Balfour Beatty 3 £507m
2 Multiplex Europe 1 £500m
3 Bowmer & Kirkland 10 £260m
4 TSL 1 £150m
5 Willmott Dixon 7 £146m
6 Galliford Try 5 £102m
7 Morgan Sindall 9 £88m
8 Kier 6 £81m
9 Winvic 3 £74m
10 Royal BAM 3 £65m
11 Wates 1 £60m
12 Parkway 1 £40m
13 Ardmore 1 £40m
14 Higgins Partnerships 1 £40m
15 SDC Construction Group 1 £40m
16 Civils Contracting 1 £35m
17 McLaughlin & Harvey 1 £35m
18 Glencar 2 £33m
19 Magna Projects 1 £31m
20 Kingscote Construction 1 £30m
21 PMR Construction Company (Coventry) 1 £30m
22 Structuretone (UK) 1 £30m
23 Taylor Woodrow Construction 1 £30m
24 MCS 3 £28m
25 McLaughlin Construction 2 £28m
26 Harmonix Construction 1 £27m
27 Adlington Retirement Living 1 £24m
28 Stepnell 2 £21m
29 Etec Contract Services 3 £21m
30 Tilbury Douglas 2 £21m
31 Curo Construction 1 £20m
32 Parogon Contracts 1 £20m
33 Keygrowing 1 £19m
34 Kori Construction (SAC Construction ) 1 £18m
35 Cleshar Contract Services 1 £17m
36 P Casey 2 £16m
37 Eutopia Homes 1 £15m
38 Amphion Construction 1 £15m
39 TanRo 1 £15m
40 A & H 3 £15m
41 Graham Construction 3 £14m
42 Mildren 2 £14m
43 Robertson 2 £13m
44 Hochtief 1 £13m
45 Magrock 2 £12m
46 Muir Construction 2 £12m
47 United Living 2 £11m
48 DBR (London) 1 £10m
49 Gilbert Ash 1 £10m
50 Marshall Construction 1 £10m

Top 50 clients – awards in December

Rank Client No. awards Value
1 CO-RE 1 £500m
2 National Grid 1 £500m
3 Wykeland Group 1 £150m
4 Luton Borough Council 1 £110m
5 Siemens 1 £100m
6 Zenobe Energy 1 £90m
7 Lloyds Banking Group 2 £80m
8 Prologis 2 £60m
9 Department For Education 7 £58m
10 Cadogan Estates 1 £53m
11 Bournemouth & Poole College 1 £46m
12 Mountpark Logistics 1 £46m
13 Telford & Wrekin Borough Council 1 £45m
14 Buccleuch Property Kettering 1 £40m
15 GP Hotel Forum Propco 1 £40m
16 London Borough of Brent 1 £40m
17 Harwell Science & Innovation Campus 1 £39m
18 Oxford Aviation Services 1 £35m
19 CBRE 1 £31m
20 BMW 1 £30m
21 Elysian Residences 1 £30m
22 King’s Cross Central General Partner 1 £30m
23 ScottishPower Renewables (UK) 1 £30m
24 Star Academies 1 £30m
25 Ministry of Justice 2 £29m
26 North Ayrshire Council 2 £28m
27 Hertfordshire County Council 2 £28m
28 Frontier Estates 1 £27m
29 Reading Borough Council 2 £26m
30 Plymouth City Council 3 £25m
31 Elgin Energy 1 £25m
32 North Lanarkshire Council 1 £25m
33 Fife Council 3 £25m
34 Gladman Group 1 £24m
35 Cambridgeshire County Council 6 £24m
36 Swale Borough Council 2 £20m
37 Allsee Technologies 1 £20m
38 Berners Street Trustee I 1 £20m
39 Ortho Clinical Diagnostics 1 £20m
40 Welbeck Healthcare Partners 1 £20m
41 Keygrowing 1 £19m
42 Big Yellow 1 £18m
43 East Suffolk Council 1 £18m
44 Aston Villa Football Club 2 £18m
45 Network Rail 1 £17m
46 Manchester City Council 2 £16m
47 School Road Acton 1 £15m
48 East Sussex County Council 1 £15m
49 Mansfield District Council 1 £15m
50 Redcar Bulk Terminal 1 £15m

Top 100 clients - awards in year to December

Rank Client No awards Value
1 National Grid 9 £1,590m
2 Department For Education 169 £1,442m
3 Department for Transport 3 £1,347m
4 Transport for West Midlands 6 £760m
5 Ministry of Defence 29 £752m
6 Thurrock Power 1 £645m
7 Ministry of Justice 40 £618m
8 Agratas 1 £500m
9 CO-RE 1 £500m
10 Google 2 £500m
11 National Highways 72 £493m
12 University of Kent 6 £419m
13 Scottish Prison Services 13 £405m
14 Southwark Charities 1 £400m
15 The Clothworks Company 1 £400m
16 Manchester City Football Club 2 £349m
17 Shrewsbury & Telford NHS Trust 13 £344m
18 Citigroup Head Office 1 £329m
19 Transport Scotland 3 £326m
20 Network Rail 42 £323m
21 University of Glasgow 3 £313m
22 Associated British Ports 8 £312m
23 Tritax 8 £305m
24 Brockton Capital 1 £300m
25 Vulcan Wharf Holdings 1 £300m
26 SSE 2 £296m
27 First Panattoni 7 £280m
28 Wykeland Group 6 £272m
29 Environment Agency 44 £270m
30 Reef Group 2 £263m
31 Adur & Worthing Borough Council 5 £260m
32 Unite Students 4 £258m
33 Landsec 2 £253m
34 Force 9 Energy Partners 1 £240m
35 Zenobe Energy 2 £237m
36 McLaren Property 4 £224m
37 Endurance Land 3 £220m
38 British Land 5 £215m
39 University of Sussex 11 £212m
40 Far East Consortium 1 £210m
41 Parabola Edinburgh 1 £209m
42 Prologis 8 £206m
43 Greystar Europe Holdings 3 £203m
44 Chinese Embassy 1 £203m
45 Lasalle Investment Management 2 £202m
46 Whitbread 2 £202m
47 BBC 1 £200m
48 Capital Real Estate 1 £200m
49 Juramia 1 £200m
50 Nigg Energy Park 1 £200m
51 Pace (Hills Road) 1 £200m
52 Prudential UK Real Estate Partnership 1 £200m
53 University of Exeter 2 £199m
54 Westminster City Council 6 £195m
55 Salboy 1 £195m
56 Warner Bros 2 £191m
57 Thames Water 8 £183m
58 Clarion Housing Group 9 £181m
59 Velindre NHS Trust 1 £180m
60 Retirement Villages Group 4 £179m
61 The Crown Estate 7 £173m
62 Oxfordshire County Council 12 £171m
63 London Borough of Camden 8 £170m
64 Platform_ 1 £165m
65 Telehouse International 2 £162m
66 Innova Renewables 3 £162m
67 London Borough of Ealing 4 £158m
68 Norfolk County Council 9 £157m
69 EDF 2 £153m
70 Access Self Storage Solutions 1 £150m
71 Alcemi 1 £150m
72 Crystal Palace Football Club 1 £150m
73 Stanhope 1 £150m
74 Segro 3 £147m
75 Art-Invest Real Estate Management UK 1 £146m
76 Milton Keynes Council 12 £143m
77 St Modwen 8 £142m
78 Mountpark Logistics 4 £137m
79 Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council 21 £136m
80 Watford Borough Council 1 £136m
81 Cityheart 1 £135m
82 Cornwall County Council 22 £134m
83 University of East Anglia 13 £133m
84 Bargate Property 1 £132m
85 VPI Immingham 1 £131m
86 London Borough Of Tower Hamlets 6 £131m
87 Avanton 1 £130m
88 Grainger 1 £130m
89 Lazari Investments 1 £130m
90 Bristol City Council 34 £129m
91 Fife Council 17 £128m
92 Essex County Council 11 £127m
93 Ark Data Centres 1 £125m
94 RWE Renewables UK 2 £122m
95 Stawson Holdings 1 £121m
96 Government Property Agency 2 £121m
97 Manchester Life Development Company 2 £121m
98 Cambridgeshire County Council 26 £120m
99 Old Park Lane Management 1 £120m
100 Southwark GP Nominee 1 1 £120m

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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%