Contractors’ League Tables

Morgan Sindall has topped the Construction News annual contractor league table in 2023, after winning 330 jobs worth a combined £2.45bn. The UK’s second-largest contractor beat second-placed Balfour Beatty, which hoovered up 56 contracts worth £2.1bn. Wates and Galliford Try came third and fourth on the list, after landing deals…

Two big prison jobs took Wates to the top of the contractor league table in November. The Surrey-headquartered firm secured the £300m deal for a 1,700-inmate jail in Leicestershire after communities secretary Michael Gove approved the scheme last month. Wates also picked up a £93m job to construct a houseblock…

Skanska has topped October’s contractor league table with a single contract win – a £158m data-centre fit-out job. The firm will install electrical plant, air conditioning, ventilation, lifts and a roof gantry at Telehouse South in London’s Docklands for data-centre provider Telehouse. Skanska previously carried out an early works package…

Multiplex topped the contracts league table for the first time in more than two-and-a-half years in September, thanks to two London wins, according to data compiled by construction intelligence provider Glenigan. The Australian multinational landed the £450m main contract for the super-prime St John’s Wood Square project, which involves demolition…

Bouygues’ UK arm has topped the monthly contractors’ league for the second time this year, propelled to the top spot by two big accommodation projects. The French multinational’s UK construction division won £268.1m in total over the month. An £80m student-accommodation scheme for the University of Chichester (pictured) was among…

Royal Bam topped the monthly contractors’ league table in July for the first time since 2020, after it was chosen to build converter stations at each end of a £2bn undersea cable between Scotland and England. The firm was awarded £500m for its share of work on Eastern Green Link…

Galliford Try topped the June contractor’s league table for the first time in more than four years, thanks to a road improvement scheme in Gloucestershire. The firm landed the M5 Junction 10 scheme, which involves building two new slip roads, as well as a new link road connecting the A4019…

Wates has once again topped the contract leader board, after a flurry of deals saw the contractor win more work than any of its rivals last month. The Surrey-based company signed 14 contracts worth a combined £266m in May, after also topping the March contract league table with 14 jobs…

Bowmer & Kirkland won a higher total value of work than any other contractor in April, largely due to a to a £100m build-to-rent (BTR) job in Leeds. The contractor tops Construction News' monthly league table of contractor project wins, ahead of runners-up Lendlease and Balfour Beatty. Bowmer & Kirkland…

Wates rose 13 places to the top of the contractors' league table in March by securing £418m worth of contracts from a total of 14 projects, including two major housing deals. According to data gathered by construction intelligence provider Glenigan, one big factor behind Wates topping the table is a…