How many specialised construction contractors are in Saudi Arabia?
Insulation, lifts, scaffolding, waterproofing and other specialised construction trades.
68.4K
active registrations list specialised construction trades activities — 4.7% of classified registrations.
Ministry of Commerce data · Q3 2026 to 16 Sep
68,413 active commercial registrations in Saudi Arabia list specialised construction trades activities as of 16 September 2026 — 4.7% of all classified registrations, the 13th-largest of the 64 sectors we track.
21,608 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +51.8% on 2024, faster than the +15% across all sectors.
Riyadh (25,589), Jeddah (9,555), Makkah (4,794) lead. Relative to its size, Khobar is the most concentrated: specialised construction contractors make up 1.7× the share they hold nationally.
54.9% of these registrations are companies rather than sole proprietorships, and the median company reports SAR 100,000 of paid-up capital.
- Active registrations
- 68,413
- 4.7% of classified CRs
- Registered in 2025
- 21,608
- +51.8% on 2024 · all sectors +15%
- Companies
- 54.9%
- 37,529 of 68,413
- Median company capital
- SAR 100k
- Paid-up, main registrations
Where specialised construction contractors are registered
Column height: specialised construction contractors by city · select a highlighted city for its page
Leading cities
Registrations, with concentration vs the national average
- Riyadh25,5891.2×
- Jeddah9,5551.3×
- Makkah4,7941.4×
- Dammam3,9331.3×
- Khobar2,5651.7×
- Madinah2,5641.0×
- Jubail2,5201.3×
- Buraydah1,1440.7×
- Najran1,0950.6×
- Taif9350.6×
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×.
Specialised construction trades: 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
- Scaffolding installation10,200Activity code 439020
- Construction equipment rental with operator9,339Activity code 439050
- Swimming pool construction6,856Activity code 439030
- Shelving and storage system installation and maintenance5,256Activity code 432972
- Automatic door installation and maintenance5,229Activity code 432920
- Fire extinguishing equipment installation and maintenance4,915Activity code 432963
- Escalator, conveyor and moving walkway installation and maintenance4,495Activity code 432912
- Building steam cleaning and sandblasting4,250Activity code 439040
Business structures
Legal form of registrations in the sector
- LLC36,97454%
- Sole proprietorship30,67144.8%
- JSC3320.5%
- Foreign branch1790.3%
- SJSC840.1%
- General partnership770.1%
- Limited partnership620.1%
- GCC branch34<0.1%
Common questions
How many specialised construction contractors are there in Saudi Arabia?
68,413 active commercial registrations list specialised construction trades 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 specialised construction contractors?
Riyadh, with 25,589 — 37.4% of the national total. Jeddah follows with 9,555.
Is the number of specialised construction contractors growing?
21,608 were registered in 2025 and are still active — +51.8% on 2024, faster than the +15% across all sectors.
Can a foreign investor set up in specialised construction trades 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 specialised construction trades?
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