United Kingdom (UK): civil engineering employees 2018

In 2018, the number of employees in the civil engineering industry in the United Kingdom increased by 8,778 employees (+3.72 percent) since 2017. Therefore, the number of employees in the United Kingdom reached a peak in 2018 with 244,945 employees.
The relationship of employer to employee exists when there is an agreement, which may be formal or informal, between an enterprise and a person, normally entered into voluntarily by both parties, whereby the person works for the enterprise in return for remuneration in cash or in kind.

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Total number of employees in the civil engineering industry in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2010 to 2018

Characteristic	Number of employees
2018	244,945
2017	236,167
2016b	236,281
2015	193,788
2014	189,757
2013	186,707
2012	197,270
2011	192,755
2010	201,864

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Release date

March 2024

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United Kingdom

Survey time period

2010 to 2018

Supplementary notes

b: Break in time series.
The source adds the following information: Number of employees is defined as those persons who work for an employer and who have a contract of employment and receive compensation in the form of wages, salaries, fees, gratuities, piecework pay or remuneration in kind. A worker from an employment agency is considered to be an employee of that temporary employment agency and not of the unit (customer) in which they work
Data coverage corresponds to Section F42 of CE Rev 2.

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