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As of 4 November 2026, 31,807 construction & building engineering companies are based in France; 220 are hiring right now and Roubaix has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 31,807
- Hiring now
- 220 · 20 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- General building contractors · 10,861
- Top city
- Roubaix · 1,158
- Parent market
- Property & construction · 238,455
Construction & building engineering in France, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| General building contractors | 10,861 | 34% |
| Masonry contractors | 6,025 | 19% |
| Civil infrastructure contractors | 4,937 | 16% |
| Excavation & earthmoving contractors | 3,765 | 12% |
| Multi trade renovation | 3,316 | 10% |
| Timber frame house builders | 2,326 | 7% |
| Swimming pool builders | 1,539 | 5% |
| Custom home builders | 1,128 | 4% |
| Roofing contractors | 844 | 3% |
| Carpentry timber construction | 647 | 2% |
| Demolition contractors | 604 | 2% |
| Concrete & formwork contractors | 388 | 1% |
| Architecture practices | 259 | 1% |
| Groundworks contractors | 242 | 1% |
| Prefabricated house manufacturers | 242 | 1% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 10,943 · 2 |
| 2-10 employees | 16,370 · 30 |
| 11-50 employees | 3,782 · 81 |
| 51-200 employees | 587 · 75 |
| 201-500 employees | 75 · 18 |
| 501-1000 employees | 26 · 8 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 14 · 4 |
| 5001-10000 employees | 1 · 0 |
| 10,001+ employees | 9 · 2 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Roubaix | 1,158 | 4% |
| Paris | 572 | 2% |
| Clermont-Ferrand | 181 | 1% |
| Nice | 148 | 0% |
| Toulouse | 125 | 0% |
| Bordeaux | 99 | 0% |
| Montpellier | 87 | 0% |
| Boulogne-Billancourt | 77 | 0% |
| Rémelfing | 70 | 0% |
| Lyon | 68 | 0% |
| Nîmes | 65 | 0% |
| Paris 17 | 61 | 0% |
The biggest construction & building engineering companies in France
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The stack of construction & building engineering in France
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31,807 construction & building engineering companies are based in France; 220 are hiring right now and Roubaix has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/property_construction/france/construction_and_building_engineering)
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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.
Construction & building engineering in France: questions
How many construction & building engineering companies are there in France?
31,807 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.
What is a sub-vertical?
The middle level of our industry tree: Property & construction → Construction & building engineering → leaf niches such as general building contractors, masonry contractors, civil infrastructure contractors. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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