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Construction statistics, Great Britain: 2025
ONS releases annual construction industry statistics for 2025 covering value of output, new orders by sector, firms, total employment, insolvencies, and Construction Output Price Indices.
The Office for National Statistics has published its annual construction statistics for Great Britain covering 2025. The dataset includes measures of the construction industry’s value of output, new orders split by sector, and the number of firms and total employment, alongside construction-specific insolvencies.
The inclusion of new orders and output is relevant for assessing near- to medium-term construction activity and, by extension, a part of domestic demand that tends to react to changes in the broader economic environment. Employment figures add a labour-market dimension, while insolvency data provide a direct window into stress within the sector.
The release also contains Construction Output Price Indices. While the material provided here does not include the index values, the presence of these indices is important for understanding whether construction costs and pricing power are moving in a way that could influence inflation pressures elsewhere in the economy.
What to watch next is the direction of the 2025 output and order trends, any changes in construction employment, and whether insolvencies rise or ease. For FX context, traders will typically focus on whether cost/price indices align with broader inflation expectations for the UK.
Why this matters for FX
Construction is a demand-sensitive part of the UK economy, and the release’s combination of output, new orders, employment and insolvencies can help FX traders gauge growth momentum and financial stress in a cyclical sector. Output Price Indices also connect to cost pressures that can feed into broader inflation dynamics.