Construction companies in Bristol ranked by employee growth
Ranked from each company's filed annual accounts. This list last changed on and was last checked against the data on . Showing the top 50 of 106 companies that qualified.
- Companies qualified
- 106 of 7,103
- Ranked first
- OUR FOOTPRINTS LTD
- Top headcount increase
- +26 employees
- Data as of
Summary
Of the 7,103 construction companies in Bristol that we checked, 106 met the rules for this list by growing their average employees between their latest two annual accounts. OUR FOOTPRINTS LTD (opens in a new tab) leads after its average employees moved from 12 to 38 (+216.7%), ahead of POWERSYSTEMS UK LTD and TOTAL PROJECT SOLUTIONS LTD.
- Incorporated before 2010: 19 companies
- Median company age: 12 years
- Combined average employees: 1,476 in the earlier year, 1,816 in the latest
Top 10: before and after
- Rank 1 OUR FOOTPRINTS LTD (opens in a new tab) 12 (2024) to 38 (2025) +216.7%
- Rank 2 POWERSYSTEMS UK LTD (opens in a new tab) 100 (2023) to 122 (2024) +22.0%
- Rank 3 TOTAL PROJECT SOLUTIONS LTD (opens in a new tab) 5 (2024) to 21 (2025) +320.0%
- Rank 4 SWORD DYNAMIC SERVICES LTD (opens in a new tab) 11 (2023) to 27 (2024) +145.5%
- Rank 5 MOLSON GROUP LTD (opens in a new tab) 454 (2023) to 470 (2024) +3.5%
- Rank 6 CLADE ENGINEERING SYSTEMS LTD (opens in a new tab) 99 (2024) to 113 (2025) +14.1%
- Rank 7 CLADE ENGINEERING SYSTEMS GROUP LTD (opens in a new tab) 99 (2024) to 113 (2025) +14.1%
- Rank 8 GIGA GROUP LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 6 (2023) to 17 (2024) +183.3%
- Rank 9 MLG UK LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 18 (2023) to 29 (2024) +61.1%
- Rank 10 VALUE OPTIMISED RETROFIT LIMITED (opens in a new tab) 11 (2024) to 21 (2025) +90.9%
The ranking
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How this list was made
- Industry
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Companies with any of these SIC codes on their Companies House record:
- 41100 – Development of building projects
- 41201 – Construction of commercial buildings
- 41202 – Construction of domestic buildings
- 42110 – Construction of roads and motorways
- 42120 – Construction of railways and underground railways
- 42130 – Construction of bridges and tunnels
- 42210 – Construction of utility projects for fluids
- 42220 – Construction of utility projects for electricity and telecommunications
- 42910 – Construction of water projects
- 42990 – Construction of other civil engineering projects
- 43110 – Demolition
- 43120 – Site preparation
- 43130 – Test drilling and boring
- 43210 – Electrical installation
- 43220 – Plumbing, heat and air-conditioning installation
- 43290 – Other construction installation
- 43310 – Plastering
- 43320 – Joinery installation
- 43330 – Floor and wall covering
- 43341 – Painting
- 43342 – Glazing
- 43390 – Other building completion and finishing
- 43910 – Roofing activities
- 43999 – Other specialised construction activities
- Location
- The post town of the registered office address is Bristol.
- Periods compared
- Each company's latest annual accounts against its accounts for the year before. Companies whose two latest accounts are not for consecutive years are left out.
- Ranking
- Ranked by the increase in average employees between the latest two consecutive annual accounts, then by percentage increase. Companies must have started with at least 5 average employees.
- Exclusions
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Companies that are dissolved, in liquidation, in administration or proposed to be struck off; dormant companies; and companies whose latest accounts end more than 21 months before the newest accounts in the data (or are dated after it).
Figures that cannot be right, which are most likely filing errors, are also left out:
- headcount more than 10 times the year before
- an employee number identical to the net assets figure, or above 100,000
- more employees than the company's accounts category allows (micro: 50, small: 250, with a margin)
- less than £5,000 of turnover per employee, or a round number of thousands with no turnover to check it against
- Companies checked
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Companies with a matching SIC code in Bristol7,103Not active−972Dormant−301Latest accounts too old or wrongly dated−2,989Figure missing for one of the two years−804Starting figure below the minimum−1,710No increase−221Figure too large or inconsistent to be reliable−0Qualified for this list106