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As of 4 November 2026, 7,166 construction & building engineering companies are based in Switzerland; 96 are hiring right now and Zürich has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 7,166
- Hiring now
- 96 · 8 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- General building contractors · 3,445
- Top city
- Zürich · 179
- Parent market
- Property & construction · 55,003
Construction & building engineering in Switzerland, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| General building contractors | 3,445 | 48% |
| Civil infrastructure contractors | 958 | 13% |
| Timber frame house builders | 657 | 9% |
| Excavation & earthmoving contractors | 365 | 5% |
| Masonry contractors | 365 | 5% |
| Multi trade renovation | 365 | 5% |
| Carpentry timber construction | 348 | 5% |
| Scaffolding contractors | 324 | 5% |
| Demolition contractors | 210 | 3% |
| Architecture practices | 182 | 3% |
| Swimming pool builders | 151 | 2% |
| Plastering rendering | 84 | 1% |
| Roofing contractors | 82 | 1% |
| General property developers | 77 | 1% |
| Concrete & formwork contractors | 76 | 1% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 479 · 0 |
| 2-10 employees | 5,811 · 37 |
| 11-50 employees | 509 · 17 |
| 51-200 employees | 221 · 23 |
| 201-500 employees | 125 · 13 |
| 501-1000 employees | 10 · 1 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 8 · 4 |
| 5001-10000 employees | 2 · 1 |
| 10,001+ employees | 1 · 0 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| Zürich | 179 | 2% |
| Basel | 98 | 1% |
| Näfels | 92 | 1% |
| Langenthal | 82 | 1% |
| Genève | 71 | 1% |
| Bern | 63 | 1% |
| Lausanne | 54 | 1% |
| St. Gallen | 50 | 1% |
| Baar | 45 | 1% |
| Winterthur | 42 | 1% |
| Zugerberg | 34 | 0% |
| Lugano | 33 | 0% |
The biggest construction & building engineering companies in Switzerland
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The stack of construction & building engineering in Switzerland
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7,166 construction & building engineering companies are based in Switzerland; 96 are hiring right now and Zürich has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/property_construction/switzerland/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 Switzerland: questions
How many construction & building engineering companies are there in Switzerland?
7,166 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, civil infrastructure contractors, timber frame house builders. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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