{
  "baseYear": 2015,
  "latestYear": 2024,
  "rows": [
    {
      "year": 2015,
      "count": 2630,
      "employment": 162765,
      "turnover_gbp_thousands": 15259839
    },
    {
      "year": 2024,
      "count": 4210,
      "employment": 235916,
      "turnover_gbp_thousands": 25076487
    }
  ],
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/activitysizeandlocation/adhocs/3013facilitiesmanagementcountemploymentandturnover2015and2024",
  "sourceDetail": "ONS, \u201cFacilities management count, employment and turnover, 2015 and 2024\u201d (ad hoc release 3013, 12 September 2025)",
  "sicCode": "81100",
  "sicLabel": "Combined facilities management",
  "releasePublished": "2025-09-12",
  "generatedAt": "2026-09-10",
  "findings": [
    {
      "id": "fm-industry-turnover",
      "figure": "\u00a325.1 billion",
      "headline": "The UK's combined facilities management industry turned over \u00a325.1 billion in 2024.",
      "context": "That is the turnover of every VAT- or PAYE-registered UK enterprise classified to SIC 2007 class 81100, Combined facilities management, at March 2024 \u2014 up from \u00a315.3 billion at March 2015, a rise of 64.3%. SIC 81100 covers providers selling bundled facilities management, so it excludes standalone cleaning, security and catering contracts and every in-house FM team. It is the measured FM industry, not total UK FM spend.",
      "method": "Turnover column of the ONS table for 2024, stated there as \u00a325,076,487 thousand and converted to billions. ONS advises that turnover in this release is drawn from sources it is unable to verify, so it is an indicative rather than a survey-grade figure."
    },
    {
      "id": "fm-industry-employment",
      "figure": "235,916",
      "headline": "235,916 people work for UK combined facilities management enterprises.",
      "context": "Employment in SIC 81100 rose from 162,765 at March 2015 to 235,916 at March 2024, a 44.9% increase over 9 years. This counts people employed by FM providers; it excludes in-house FM staff, who are counted under their employer's own industry.",
      "method": "Employment column of the ONS table, 2015 and 2024 rows, with the percentage change between them computed here."
    },
    {
      "id": "fm-industry-enterprises",
      "figure": "4,210",
      "headline": "4,210 UK enterprises are classified as combined facilities management providers.",
      "context": "The count rose from 2,630 at March 2015 to 4,210 at March 2024 \u2014 60.1% more firms in 9 years, the fastest-growing of the three measures in the release.",
      "method": "Count column of the ONS table. ONS control-rounds these counts to base five, so both years are rounded figures and the change between them inherits that rounding."
    },
    {
      "id": "fm-industry-growth",
      "figure": "64.3%",
      "headline": "UK combined FM turnover grew 64.3% between 2015 and 2024.",
      "context": "Turnover rose from \u00a315.3 billion to \u00a325.1 billion across the 9 years the release compares \u2014 a compound annual growth rate of 5.7%. These are cash figures: ONS does not adjust them for inflation, and a substantial part of the rise reflects price growth rather than volume.",
      "method": "Computed from the 2015 and 2024 turnover rows of the ONS table. CAGR is the 9-year compound rate between the same two values. ONS advises that turnover in this release is drawn from sources it is unable to verify, so it is an indicative rather than a survey-grade figure."
    },
    {
      "id": "fm-turnover-per-employee",
      "figure": "\u00a3106,000",
      "headline": "UK combined FM providers turn over about \u00a3106,000 per employee.",
      "context": "Dividing 2024 turnover by 2024 employment gives \u00a3106,294 per employee, against \u00a393,754 in 2015 \u2014 a rise of 13.4% in cash terms over 9 years. Facilities management remains a labour-intensive industry: revenue per head is a fraction of the figure in the professional services sectors it is often procured alongside.",
      "method": "2024 turnover (\u00a325,076,487 thousand) divided by 2024 employment (235,916), rounded to the nearest \u00a31,000. ONS advises that turnover in this release is drawn from sources it is unable to verify, so it is an indicative rather than a survey-grade figure."
    },
    {
      "id": "fm-average-enterprise-size",
      "figure": "56 employees",
      "headline": "The average UK combined FM enterprise employs 56 people \u2014 down from 62 in 2015.",
      "context": "Enterprise numbers grew 60.1% between 2015 and 2024 while employment grew 44.9%, so the average provider got smaller: 61.9 employees in 2015 against 56.0 in 2024. The industry has grown mainly by adding firms rather than by concentrating work in the existing large ones \u2014 a fragmentation the market-share narratives around the major contractors do not capture.",
      "method": "Employment divided by enterprise count for each year, from the ONS table. Because ONS control-rounds the counts to base five, the ratio is approximate; the direction of travel is robust to that rounding, since a \u00b12.5 rounding on 4,210 firms moves the average by well under one employee."
    }
  ]
}