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What roads, utilities and groundworks work sells for
Read from 537 UK public contract awards. Every figure below states how many jobs are behind it.
What it went for
£220,000
the middle of 537 awards, from £1,289 to £23,455,545
Half of all roads, utilities and groundworks awards fell between £76,365 and £919,090.
Against the estimate
Awarded at the estimate.
62 of these jobs advertised an estimate before bids came in
How long the decision takes
112 days from advert to award. About the middle for construction work — the all-trades middle is 112 days.
the middle of 71 jobs whose advert and award were both published
When roads & groundworks work comes out to bid
October is the busiest month and May the quietest — 135 against 42, across 5 full years.
- January: 98 advertised
- February: 83 advertised
- March: 53 advertised
- April: 57 advertised
- May: 42 advertised
- June: 65 advertised
- July: 69 advertised
- August: 90 advertised
- September: 120 advertised
- October: 135 advertised
- November: 126 advertised
- December: 114 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
- Whole buildings£1,102,500
- 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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