How many electrical contractors are in Saudi Arabia?
Contractors installing electrical wiring, lighting and power systems in buildings and sites.
69.8K
active registrations list electrical contractors activities — 4.8% of classified registrations.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
69,805 active commercial registrations in Saudi Arabia list electrical contractors activities as of 16 September 2026 — 4.8% of all classified registrations, the 12th-largest of the 64 sectors we track.
20,498 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +48.3% on 2024, faster than the +15% across all sectors.
Riyadh (27,699), Jeddah (9,959), Makkah (4,621) lead. Relative to its size, Khobar is the most concentrated: electrical contractors make up 1.9× the share they hold nationally.
55.4% of these registrations are companies rather than sole proprietorships, and the median company reports SAR 100,000 of paid-up capital.
- Active registrations
- 69,805
- 4.8% of classified CRs
- Registered in 2025
- 20,498
- +48.3% on 2024 · all sectors +15%
- Companies
- 55.4%
- 38,684 of 69,805
- Median company capital
- SAR 100k
- Paid-up, main registrations
Where electrical contractors are registered
Column height: electrical contractors by city · select a highlighted city for its page
Leading cities
Registrations, with concentration vs the national average
- Riyadh27,6991.3×
- Jeddah9,9591.3×
- Makkah4,6211.3×
- Dammam4,0071.3×
- Khobar2,8881.9×
- Madinah2,5180.9×
- Jubail2,0111.0×
- Buraydah1,2200.7×
- Najran9330.5×
- Taif8490.6×
Concentration compares the sector's share of a city's registrations with its share nationally; 1.0× is average. Highlighted cities are above 1.15×.
Electrical contractors: registrations by year of creation
Still-active registrations by the year they were created, 2015–2025. Older years read lower because cancelled registrations drop out.
Most common activities
Registrations listing each national activity code
- Electrical wiring installation17,345Activity code 432111
- Network cabling installation11,359Activity code 432113
- Lighting system installation10,441Activity code 432131
- Telecom cabling installation9,124Activity code 432112
- TV and satellite network installation7,297Activity code 432121
- Security system installation and maintenance6,176Activity code 432134
- Computer and telecom network installation2,804Activity code 432122
- Traffic safety equipment installation and maintenance2,714Activity code 432135
Business structures
Legal form of registrations in the sector
- LLC37,99654.4%
- Sole proprietorship30,84144.2%
- JSC4440.6%
- Foreign branch2360.3%
- SJSC950.1%
- General partnership880.1%
- Limited partnership610.1%
- GCC branch440.1%
Common questions
How many electrical contractors are there in Saudi Arabia?
69,805 active commercial registrations list electrical contractors activities as of 16 September 2026, according to Ministry of Commerce data. A registration can list several activities, so it may also count in related sectors.
Which city has the most electrical contractors?
Riyadh, with 27,699 — 39.7% of the national total. Jeddah follows with 9,959.
Is the number of electrical contractors growing?
20,498 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +48.3% on 2024, faster than the +15% across all sectors.
Can a foreign investor set up in electrical contractors in Saudi Arabia?
Most activities are open to 100% foreign ownership with a MISA investment licence, though some carry conditions such as minimum capital, a Saudi partner or sector-regulator approval. Alpha Consultancy confirms the conditions for your exact activity code before you apply.
Figures are Alpha Consultancy's analysis of the Ministry of Commerce's open datasets on the Saudi Open Data Platform (open.data.gov.sa): the register of active commercial registrations (CRs) as of 16 September 2026.
Active CRsinclude main and branch registrations, as in the Ministry's own totals. Registered in a period counts CRs created in that period that were still active on 16 September 2026; registrations since cancelled are not in the source file, so older periods read lower than the number originally issued.
Partial quarter. The Ministry's Q3 2026 file is labelled as the quarter end but only contains registrations created up to 16 September 2026, so every figure here is as of that date and the latest quarter in the charts (marked *) is incomplete.
Sector figures cover the 1,443,322 active registrations (74.7%) that appear in the Ministry of Commerce's activity association file, which lists activities for registrations created up to 31 December 2025. Registrations created after that date are not yet classified. A registration counts once in each sector it is active in, so sectors overlap.
No individual business is identified on these pages; only aggregate counts are published.
Starting a business in electrical contractors?
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