How many engineering consultancies are in Saudi Arabia?
Architectural and engineering consultancies and technical testing.
11.6K
active registrations list engineering & architecture consultancies activities — 0.8% of classified registrations.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
11,564 active commercial registrations in Saudi Arabia list engineering & architecture consultancies activities as of 16 September 2026 — 0.8% of all classified registrations, the 51st-largest of the 64 sectors we track.
2,120 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +6.6% on 2024, slower than the +15% across all sectors.
Riyadh (5,211), Jeddah (1,753) and Makkah (605) lead. Relative to its size, Khobar is the most concentrated: engineering consultancies make up 2.3× the share they hold nationally.
75.9% of these registrations are companies rather than sole proprietorships, and the median company reports SAR 50,000 of paid-up capital.
- Active registrations
- 11,564
- 0.8% of classified CRs
- Registered in 2025
- 2,120
- +6.6% on 2024 · all sectors +15%
- Companies
- 75.9%
- 8,772 of 11,564
- Median company capital
- SAR 50k
- Paid-up, main registrations
Where engineering consultancies are registered
Column height: engineering consultancies by city · select a highlighted city for its page
Leading cities
Registrations, with concentration vs the national average
- Riyadh5,2111.5×
- Jeddah1,7531.4×
- Makkah6051.1×
- Dammam5911.2×
- Khobar5862.3×
- Madinah3630.8×
- Buraydah2030.7×
- Taif1870.7×
- Jubail1420.4×
- Abha1311.1×
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×.
Engineering & architecture consultancies: 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
- Engineering and architectural consultancy1,348Activity code 711013
- Geological surveying and exploration1,025Activity code 711020
- Energy efficiency engineering design services756Activity code 711084
- Energy efficiency project management742Activity code 711081
- Aerial photography and surveying666Activity code 711048
- Construction project management630Activity code 711014
- Industrial facility data review and auditing542Activity code 711086
- Urban planning engineering consultancy510Activity code 711015
Business structures
Legal form of registrations in the sector
- LLC8,54273.9%
- Sole proprietorship2,65523%
- Foreign branch1281.1%
- General partnership940.8%
- JSC840.7%
- SJSC440.4%
- GCC branch90.1%
- Limited partnership80.1%
Engineering & architecture consultancies by city
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Common questions
How many engineering consultancies are there in Saudi Arabia?
11,564 active commercial registrations list engineering & architecture consultancies 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 engineering consultancies?
Riyadh, with 5,211 — 45.1% of the national total. Jeddah follows with 1,753.
Is the number of engineering consultancies growing?
2,120 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +6.6% on 2024, slower than the +15% across all sectors.
Can a foreign investor set up in engineering & architecture consultancies 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.
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