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As of 4 November 2026, 44,539 construction & building engineering companies are based in United Kingdom; 238 are hiring right now and London has the most.
As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.
- Companies
- 44,539
- Hiring now
- 238 · 44 new in 30 d
- Largest niche
- General building contractors · 26,008
- Top city
- London · 1,084
- Parent market
- Property & construction · 282,765
Construction & building engineering in United Kingdom, broken down
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| General building contractors | 26,008 | 58% |
| Civil infrastructure contractors | 3,376 | 8% |
| Scaffolding contractors | 2,776 | 6% |
| Groundworks contractors | 2,534 | 6% |
| Masonry contractors | 1,833 | 4% |
| Multi trade renovation | 1,778 | 4% |
| Hard landscaping & paving | 1,389 | 3% |
| Custom home builders | 1,056 | 2% |
| Carpentry timber construction | 870 | 2% |
| Timber frame house builders | 828 | 2% |
| Concrete & formwork contractors | 792 | 2% |
| Excavation & earthmoving contractors | 675 | 2% |
| Demolition contractors | 616 | 1% |
| Roofing contractors | 534 | 1% |
| Other construction & building engineering | 493 | 1% |
| companies · hiring | |
|---|---|
| Self-employed | 3,720 · 1 |
| 2-10 employees | 34,964 · 35 |
| 11-50 employees | 4,464 · 68 |
| 51-200 employees | 1,124 · 75 |
| 201-500 employees | 179 · 28 |
| 501-1000 employees | 46 · 18 |
| 1001-5000 employees | 33 · 12 |
| 5001-10000 employees | 1 · 0 |
| 10,001+ employees | 8 · 1 |
| companies | share | |
|---|---|---|
| London | 1,084 | 2% |
| Bristol | 292 | 1% |
| Birmingham | 197 | 0% |
| Liverpool | 172 | 0% |
| Rode | 169 | 0% |
| Glasgow | 168 | 0% |
| Leeds | 166 | 0% |
| Sheffield | 163 | 0% |
| Manchester | 139 | 0% |
| Nottingham | 113 | 0% |
| Ilford | 94 | 0% |
| Croydon | 93 | 0% |
The biggest construction & building engineering companies in United Kingdom
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The stack of construction & building engineering in United Kingdom
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44,539 construction & building engineering companies are based in United Kingdom; 238 are hiring right now and London has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/property_construction/united-kingdom/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 United Kingdom: questions
How many construction & building engineering companies are there in United Kingdom?
44,539 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, scaffolding contractors. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.
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