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What construction work sells for
Every trade on one scale, read from published UK public contract awards — what the work went for, and how wide the middle of the market really is. Free, no account, every figure carries the number of jobs behind it.
Every trade, one scale
The bar is the middle half of each trade’s awards and the dot is the middle award. The scale steps by tens, so the smallest trade and the largest both fit on it.
- Whole buildings595 awards£1,102,500
- Site preparation16 awards£416,890
- Floor & wall coverings8 awards£400,000
- Insulation15 awards£364,009
- Joinery & carpentry84 awards£345,051
- Industrial & energy30 awards£315,049
- Roofing270 awards£252,053
- Finishing work240 awards£250,018
- Fencing64 awards£247,631
- Roads & groundworks537 awards£220,000
- Civil engineering108 awards£203,817
- Plumbing91 awards£189,548
- Water & drainage258 awards£163,755
- Painting & glazing32 awards£158,750
- Electrical180 awards£146,686
- Heating & ventilation35 awards£132,802
- Demolition & earthworks256 awards£117,169
- Earthmoving plant hire7 awards£104,000
2 more trades have awards on record but not yet the five needed for a middle figure.
Where these figures come from
Every figure is read from contract award notices published by UK public bodies — councils, NHS trusts, housing associations, government departments — under the Open Government Licence. Nothing is estimated, modelled or filled in. A figure appears only once enough awards support it, and it always states how many.
The figures are rebuilt each night, last on 6 August 2026. They cover publicly tendered work, which is not the same as domestic or private commercial work: a price here is what a public body paid a contractor on a contract that went through a formal tender.
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