Balfour Beatty to increase workforce by 2,000 over next two years

Balfour Beatty has set out plans to increase its UK workforce by 2,000 over the next two years.

The infrastructure group expects its workforce to rise from about 14,000 to 16,000 by the end of 2027.

Its UK employee numbers increased from 12,200 at the end of 2023 to about 14,000 at the end of 2025.

Around 1,000 of the new positions are expected to be filled through apprenticeships, graduate programmes, internships and trainee schemes.

Early-career employees currently account for about 9% of the company’s UK workforce. 

This is expected to increase to about 12.7% by the end of 2027.

Philip Hoare, group chief executive at Balfour Beatty, said: “Britain’s infrastructure ambitions will only be realised if the country has the capacity, capability and skills to deliver them.

“Expanding our workforce by 2,000 is a clear vote of confidence in the market.