Market map · United Kingdom

Property & construction in United Kingdom_

As of 4 November 2026, 282,765 property & construction companies are based in United Kingdom: 4,175 with 51+ employees, 991 hiring right now, led by building finishing contractors and London.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

Companies, confident classification
282,765
51+ employees
4,175 · 1%
Hiring now
991 · 172 new in 30 d
Largest segment
Building finishing contractors · 61,649
Top city
London · 7,213
Running cold outbound
103
282,765property & construction companies in United Kingdom
4,175with 51+ employees
991hiring on their own career site today
172opened a role in the last 30 days
02 — Segments

Property & construction in United Kingdom, by segment

Click a segment for its own map. Second column: companies hiring right now.

By sub-vertical
companies · hiring
Building finishing contractors
61,649 · 77
Construction & building engineering
44,539 · 238
Plumbing heating sanitary trades
36,109 · 123
Cleaning pest control services
34,941 · 114
Landscaping & grounds maintenance
29,715 · 40
Electrical solar installation
26,131 · 132
Locksmiths doors & glazing
20,438 · 0
Specialist building services contractors
16,414 · 44
Architecture & interior design
15,776 · 51
Real estate agencies
12,313 · 91
Property management services
10,407 · 106
Space letting & rental
10,083 · 48
Property development projects
7,620 · 59
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
58,178 · 5
2-10 employees
202,760 · 239
11-50 employees
17,652 · 306
51-200 employees
3,218 · 259
201-500 employees
606 · 93
501-1000 employees
188 · 43
1001-5000 employees
133 · 38
5001-10000 employees
11 · 3
10,001+ employees
19 · 5
By city
companiesshare
London
7,2133%
Bristol
1,5451%
Glasgow
1,5151%
Birmingham
1,4251%
Leeds
1,0920%
Manchester
1,0770%
Sheffield
1,0180%
Liverpool
9840%
Rode
9150%
Nottingham
8070%
Edinburgh
8000%
Mansfield
6970%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest property & construction companies in United Kingdom

The largest companies of the market, by headcount; job boards and portals left out.

282,765 property & construction companies in United Kingdom; 991 of them hiring.

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04 — What they run

The stack of property & construction in United Kingdom

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282,765 property & construction companies are based in United Kingdom: 4,175 with 51 or more employees, 991 hiring right now (172 opened a role in the last 30 days), led by building finishing contractors and London. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/property_construction/united-kingdom)
How we know

Read from the source, not self-reported

Every number on this page can be traced to a page we crawled or a posting we read. Full methodology →

  • 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.
  • StackScripts and embeds on the company's pages plus SPF, DKIM, MX and CNAME records of its domain.
FAQ

Property & construction in United Kingdom: questions

How many property & construction companies are there in United Kingdom?

282,765 with a confident industry and country classification, read from their own websites; 4,175 of them have 51 or more employees.

How do you know a company belongs to property & construction?

We classify every company from its own website into a vertical, a sub-vertical and a leaf, each with a confidence score. This page counts companies with industry confidence of at least 0.7 and country confidence of at least 0.8; the company list shows only rich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount.

Which property & construction companies in United Kingdom are hiring?

991 have an open role on their own career site today and 172 opened one in the last 30 days. The full list with the hiring manager is in the product; counting is free.

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