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Retaining walls contracts

UK public sector · 89 contracts awarded in the 12 months to 6 October 2026

Covering 600+ buyer portals · 5 years of records · Updated 6 October 2026 · How we count

Contracts awarded
89
Last 12 months
Median contract
£90k
Recorded value
Recorded value
£80.9m
81 of 86 main-service contracts have a published value
Buyers
58
Suppliers
71

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What stands out

  • The five suppliers that won the most retaining walls contracts took 21% of them (19 of 89).
  • Contracts awarded per quarter fell 20% from the first half of the period to the second.
  • The median contract, £90k, is 35% below the median across construction & trades contracts (£139k).
  • Wales had the most contracts: 24, or 27% of the total.

Who buys retaining walls

By contracts awarded, the 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1The Coal Authority7 contracts
  2. 2Caerphilly County Borough Council4 contracts
  3. 3Devon County Council4 contracts
  4. 4Westmorland and Furness Council4 contracts
  5. 5Lancashire County Council3 contracts
  6. 6Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council3 contracts
  7. 7Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council3 contracts
  8. 8Cyngor Gwynedd3 contracts
  9. 9Vale of Glamorgan Council3 contracts
  10. 10Bath & North East Somerset Council2 contracts

Top retaining walls contractors by contracts won

The 12 months to 6 October 2026.

  1. 1Jim Davies Civil Engineering Ltd5 contracts
  2. 2Construction Marine Limited5 contracts
  3. 3Metcalfe Plant Hire4 contracts
  4. 4Coating Services Ltd3 contracts
  5. 5Alun Griffiths (Contractors) Ltd2 contracts
  6. 6Soil Engineering Geoservices2 contracts
  7. 7Marton Civil engineering2 contracts
  8. 8Llettyshenkin Construction Company Ltd2 contracts
  9. 9TW GROUP (SOUTH WALES) LTD2 contracts
  10. 10SKANSKA CONSTRUCTION UK LIMITED1 contract

Latest and largest awards

Each links to the official notice.

Latest

Largest

Contracts awarded by quarter

16Q4 2025*30Q1 202619Q2 202624Q3 20260Q4 2026*
* part quarter

Where the contracts were awarded

England 62 · Wales 24 · Scotland 2 · Northern Ireland 1

Wales24North West12South West12Yorkshire and The Humber7South East6West Midlands5East Midlands4London4North East3East of England2Scotland1Northern Ireland1UK-wide or not stated8

What is included

Construction, strengthening and repair of retaining walls and stabilisation of slopes, embankments and land hazards, including monitoring and inspection bought with the works.

  • Retaining wall construction
  • Retaining and parapet wall strengthening
  • Land hazard civils such as drainage channels, retaining structures and reprofiling
  • Land hazard inspections inside a works contract
  • Earthwork failure detection systems on embankments

What is not included

  • Ground investigation (con.civils.ground-investigation)
  • Bridge parapets (con.civils.bridges-structures)
  • Boundary walls to buildings (con.fabric.brickwork-and-masonry-repairs)

Often bought by the same buyers