Building finishing contractors in Australia
As of 5 November 2026, 22,763 building finishing contractors companies are based in Australia; 53 are hiring right now and Melbourne has the most.
As of 5 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 22,763
- Hiring now
- 53 · 2 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- Painting & decorating · 4,082
- Top city
- Melbourne · 629
- Parent market
- Property & construction · 132,882
Building finishing contractors in Australia, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Painting & decorating | 4,082 | 18% |
| Roofing contractors | 2,950 | 13% |
| Multi trade renovation | 2,344 | 10% |
| Flooring installation | 1,551 | 7% |
| Tiling contractors | 1,280 | 6% |
| Plastering rendering | 1,240 | 5% |
| Carpentry timber construction | 1,230 | 5% |
| Bathroom renovation | 1,161 | 5% |
| Blinds shutters installers | 1,011 | 4% |
| Resin epoxy flooring | 991 | 4% |
| General building contractors | 844 | 4% |
| Other building finishing contractors | 828 | 4% |
| Fencing & gate installers | 657 | 3% |
| Waterproofing contractors | 627 | 3% |
| Kitchen bathroom fitters | 577 | 3% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 7,233 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 14,497 · 26 |
| 11-50 employees | 875 · 20 |
| 51-200 employees | 132 · 7 |
| 201-500 employees | 21 · 0 |
| 501-1000 employees | 3 · 0 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 2 · 0 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Melbourne | 629 | 3% |
| Sydney | 494 | 2% |
| Perth | 325 | 1% |
| Adelaide | 186 | 1% |
| Brisbane | 182 | 1% |
| Dandenong | 133 | 1% |
| Haymarket | 132 | 1% |
| Victoria | 125 | 1% |
| Gold Coast | 118 | 1% |
| Tiling | 107 | 0% |
| Canberra | 95 | 0% |
| Sunshine Coast | 79 | 0% |
The biggest building finishing contractors companies in Australia
The largest companies of the segment, by headcount; job boards and portals left out.
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The stack of building finishing contractors in Australia
From their websites and DNS records, page plumbing left out.
Other segments of property & construction in Australia
Property & construction in Australia, the whole market →
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Landscaping & grounds maintenance · 9,681 →
Real estate agencies · 9,221 →
Architecture & interior design · 7,716 →
Specialist building services contractors · 7,081 →
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22,763 building finishing contractors companies are based in Australia; 53 are hiring right now and Melbourne has the most. (Breaknorm, 5 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/property_construction/australia/building_finishing_contractors)
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- ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
- Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
- HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
Building finishing contractors in Australia: questions
How many building finishing contractors companies are there in Australia?
22,763 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.
What is a sub-vertical?
The middle level of our industry tree: Property & construction → Building finishing contractors → leaf niches such as painting & decorating, roofing contractors, multi trade renovation. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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