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A pay gap is not the same as unequal pay. It compares the midpoint of what men and women are paid across a whole workforce, so it mostly reflects which jobs each group holds. Paying people differently for the same work has been unlawful since 1970. Figures are employers’ own submissions to the Gender pay gap service, Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

UK pay gap explorer/Sectors/Construction

Sector benchmark · 2025–26

Gender pay gap in Construction

Name: UK Construction gender pay gap data
Creator: Remunify
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

The median reported hourly pay gap across employers classified in this sector. Sector figures give context; they do not establish which employers perform well or badly.

About this sector’s data

This sector includes building contractors, civil engineering businesses and specialist construction trades.

Representation across site trades, technical professions, commercial teams and senior management can strongly influence an employer’s median gap. A pay gap describes the whole workforce and does not show whether people receive equal pay for equal work.

Across 471 classified employers, the sector median was 21.8% in 2025–26, 3.0 percentage points narrower compared with 2017.

Sector median gap: 21.8%
Change since 2017: −3.0 pts
Employers classified: 471

Nine years of sector filings

Median of employer-level median hourly gaps · not weighted by workforce size

Above zero, men earn more at the midpoint. Hover or focus each point for the exact figure. The incomplete 2026 reporting year is omitted.

Employers with the widest reported gaps

2025–26 · first 40 of 320 usable filings in this sector

LUDDON CONSTRUCTION LIMITED500 to 999100.0%H.W. MARTIN (TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT) LIMITED500 to 99960.0%ALLTASK LIMITED250 to 49958.2%ACTEMIUM UK LIMITEDLess than 25057.0%BAM CONSTRUCT & VENTURES UK LIMITED1000 to 499952.1%P.J. CAREY (CONTRACTORS) LIMITED250 to 49951.0%DERRY BUILDING SERVICES LIMITED250 to 49950.0%ESSEX SERVICES GROUP LIMITED250 to 49950.0%BRIGGS & FORRESTER ENGINEERING SERVICES LIMITEDLess than 25048.8%MAP GROUP (UK) LIMITED250 to 49948.0%WINVIC CONSTRUCTION LIMITED500 to 99946.6%HIGGINS PARTNERSHIPS 1961 PLC250 to 49945.5%MCLAREN CONSTRUCTION LIMITED500 to 99945.5%MCLAUGHLIN & HARVEY CONSTRUCTION LIMITED250 to 49945.2%E.W. BEARD LIMITED250 to 49944.9%GLENCAR CONSTRUCTION LTD250 to 49944.4%SAIPEM LIMITED500 to 99943.2%MCCARTHY & STONE RETIREMENT LIFESTYLES LIMITED250 to 49943.2%WATKIN JONES PLC250 to 49941.9%ALTRAD INTEGRITY SERVICES LIMITED1000 to 499941.0%OVERBURY PLC1000 to 499940.6%RAINHAM INDUSTRIAL SERVICES LIMITED500 to 99940.0%TESGL LIMITED250 to 49939.9%SES (ENGINEERING SERVICES) LIMITED500 to 99938.8%SURESERVE COMPLIANCE CENTRAL LIMITED500 to 99938.2%M.V. KELLY LIMITED250 to 49937.8%VINCI BUILDING LIMITED500 to 99937.7%SURESERVE COMPLIANCE NORTHWEST LIMITED250 to 49937.6%LAST MILE INFRASTRUCTURE LIMITED500 to 99937.4%GMI CONSTRUCTION GROUP PLCLess than 25037.2%FARRANS LIMITED500 to 99937.0%LNT CONSTRUCTION LIMITED250 to 49937.0%MULALLEY & CO. LIMITED250 to 49937.0%COLLINS EARTHWORKS LIMITED250 to 49936.9%DODD GROUP (MIDLANDS) LIMITED500 to 99936.8%BILFINGER UK LIMITED1000 to 499936.4%ENGENDA GROUP LIMITED250 to 49935.5%MJL CONTRACTORS LIMITED250 to 49935.3%JOHN SISK & SON LIMITED500 to 99935.2%MORRIS & SPOTTISWOOD LIMITED250 to 49935.2%

These are the widest gaps in the filed data, not a ranking of the “worst” employers. Workforce structure, occupations and the legal entity covered all affect the result.