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What whole buildings work sells for
Read from 595 UK public contract awards. Every figure below states how many jobs are behind it.
What it went for
£1,102,500
the middle of 595 awards, from £2,000 to £24,000,000
Half of all whole buildings awards fell between £179,859 and £4,762,737.
Against the estimate
Awarded at the estimate.
77 of these jobs advertised an estimate before bids came in
How long the decision takes
117 days from advert to award. 5 days longer than the all-trades middle of 112 days.
the middle of 89 jobs whose advert and award were both published
When whole buildings work comes out to bid
October is the busiest month and April the quietest — 256 against 118, across 7 full years.
- January: 182 advertised
- February: 171 advertised
- March: 143 advertised
- April: 118 advertised
- May: 165 advertised
- June: 152 advertised
- July: 220 advertised
- August: 195 advertised
- September: 249 advertised
- October: 256 advertised
- November: 225 advertised
- December: 176 advertised
counted on tenders advertised, which is what a contractor plans around — a month with nothing held is shown as a dash, never a zero
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.
Other trades
- Roads & groundworks£220,000
- Roofing£252,053
- Water & drainage£163,755
- Demolition & earthworks£117,169
- Finishing work£250,018
- Electrical£146,686
- Civil engineering£203,817
- Plumbing£189,548
- Joinery & carpentry£345,051
- Fencing£247,631
- Heating & ventilation£132,802
- Painting & glazing£158,750
- Industrial & energy£315,049
- Site preparation£416,890
- Insulation£364,009
- Floor & wall coverings£400,000
- Earthmoving plant hire£104,000
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