Contract Journal’s league table of the construction companies who have won the most contracts in the past year. The table was last updated with the figures for September 2009.
| Position | Previous month | Contractor | No of Contracts | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Balfour Beatty | 782 | 7,053.94 |
| 2 | 2 | Skanska | 79 | 2,858.28 |
| 3 | 3 | Laing O'Rourke * | 41 | 2,399.25 |
| 4 | 7 | Kier | 275 | 2,004.70 |
| 5 | 4 | Morgan Sindall | 389 | 1,713.32 |
| 6 | 5 | Costain | 49 | 1,656.09 |
| 7 | 6 | Carillion | 110 | 1,374.00 |
| 8 | 8 | Rok | 308 | 1,227.23 |
| 9 | 11 | BAM Construct | 51 | 1,096.90 |
| 10 | 10 | Amey | 36 | 1,056.01 |
| 11 | 9 | Wates | 202 | 954.94 |
| 12 | 14 | Galliford Try | 106 | 845.08 |
| 13 | 12 | Willmott Dixon | 138 | 829.72 |
| 14 | 13 | Morrison Utility Services | 43 | 756.32 |
| 15 | 16 | Interserve Projects | 159 | 597.46 |
| 16 | 15 | Sir Robert McAlpine | 19 | 551.70 |
| 17 | 17 | Vinci Construction Ltd | 163 | 545.31 |
| 18 | 18 | ISG | 273 | 537.51 |
| 19 | 19 | Apollo Group | 101 | 386.72 |
| 20 | 24 | Miller | 17 | 350.63 |
| 21 | 25 | Volker Wessels UK | 75 | 326.00 |
| 22 | 21 | Bovis Lend Lease | 6 | 324.50 |
| 23 | 20 | BAM Nuttall | 70 | 320.71 |
| 24 | 23 | Higgins Group | 16 | 317.93 |
| 25 | 22 | Bowmer & Kirkland | 78 | 314.36 |
| 26 | 26 | Sisk | 17 | 232.63 |
| 27 | 30 | Buckingham Group | 46 | 191.01 |
| 28 | 27 | Thomas Vale | 151 | 190.02 |
| 29 | 32 | Midas Group | 102 | 182.34 |
| 30 | 31 | Leadbitter | 63 | 176.95 |
| 31 | 33 | FM Conway | 11 | 165.80 |
| 32 | 28 | Norwest Holst | 8 | 139.40 |
| 33 | 29 | McLaren Construction | 22 | 133.32 |
| 34 | 35 | Lakehouse | 67 | 124.69 |
| 35 | 34 | Breyer Group | 108 | 122.15 |
| 36 | 36 | North Midland | 66 | 117.72 |
| 37 | 37 | SDC Construction | 24 | 102.28 |
| 38 | 42 | Mulalley & Co Ltd | 26 | 98.10 |
| 39 | 38 | GB Building Solutions | 12 | 90.94 |
| 40 | 39 | Durkan | 30 | 83.39 |
| 41 | 41 | Eric Wright | 39 | 78.71 |
| 42 | 43 | Osborne | 98 | 75.96 |
| 43 | 40 | Watkin Jones | 15 | 71.13 |
| 44 | - | Jackson Civil Engineering * | 12 | 64.95 |
| 45 | 44 | Frank Haslam * | 6 | 63.90 |
| 46 | 46 | C Spencer | 26 | 59.49 |
| 47 | 45 | Haymills | 30 | 54.13 |
| 48 | 47 | Taylor Woodrow | 19 | 45.14 |
| 49 | - | Rydon | 11 | 43.14 |
| 50 | - | Winvic Construction | 3 | 41.80 |
| Totals for October 08 - September 09 | 4598 | 33,147.68 | ||
| *Information taken from Barbour-ABI database | ||||