Read the news for the hiring it sets off
A fortnight of construction headlines, read the way a recruiter reads them, and an honest account of why I am publishing that reading for free instead of keeping it in the drawer.
Insights · Who is hiring
Where the senior roles are, and where they will be next.
The live count of senior roles, and the awards and programmes that set the next hiring off.
The live count
124 senior roles open across 29 contractors and programmes
Mace and HS2 hold 51% of every director, head-of and chief role on the list.
London and Manchester account for 66 of the 124.
No new senior roles since 17 September.
What the demand is telling us →
The supply chain event nobody is running
Five hospital schemes, five main contractors, one region. The Norwich supplier day will answer which firms can deliver the work. It cannot answer the harder question: which people will lead it.
Mace and Balfour Beatty hold 72 of 130 open senior roles. Week of 11 August 2026
130 senior construction vacancies are open right now, and 72 of them, well over half, sit with just two contractors: Mace and Balfour Beatty.
Who is hiring at the top. August 2026
The live count of open director and head-of level roles across UK contractors and programmes, and what it says about where the market is moving.
The Great Water Reset: What Five New CEOs in Twelve Months Tells Us About Leadership in UK Water
Five UK water companies have changed chief executive inside a year. That is not coincidence, it is a sector resetting its leadership in the middle of AMP8.
The money is there. The people aren't.
There has rarely been more money in UK construction, and rarely less capacity to deliver it. A market letter on the people problem holding the sector back.