The Datum Report

Occupation 1122 · Managers, directors and senior officials

Production managers and directors in construction

Half of full-time production managers and directors in construction in the UK earn more than £56,021 a year, and half earn less.

Production managers and directors in construction direct and co-ordinate resources for the construction and maintenance of civil and structural engineering works including houses, flats, factories, roads and runways, bridges, tunnels and railway works, harbour, dock and marine works and water supply, drainage and sewage works.

How people enter it

There are no pre-set entry standards. Entry is possible with either a degree or equivalent qualification and/or relevant experience, via apprenticeships or S/NVQs in Management at levels 3 to 5. On-the-job training is provided, and professional qualifications are available.

What the work involves

• liaises with other managers to plan overall production activity and construction activities, sets quality standards and estimates timescales and costs
• receives invitations to tender, arranges for estimates and liaises with client, architects, Chartered architectual technologists and engineers for the preparation of contracts
• plans, directs and co-ordinates the construction and maintenance of civil and structural engineering works, including demolition, pipelines and pilings
• receives reports upon work in progress to ensure that materials and construction methods meet with specifications and statutory requirements and that there are no deviations from agreed plans

Also called

Building services manager · Construction manager · Director (building construction) · Owner (electrical contracting) · Site manager

What it pays

How pay has changed

Median gross annual pay for production managers and directors in construction, full-time employees, 2023 to 2025. Each point is that year's ASHE April snapshot as published — revisions are not backfilled into earlier years, and a year ONS withheld is a gap rather than a joined line.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Year-on-year change

The change from each year to the next, in per cent, computed from the figures in the chart above — so the two cannot disagree.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Table

Pay by region

Median gross annual pay for full-time employees, ranked, against the UK figure. 10 of 11 regions are published: ONS withholds a cell where the survey sample cannot support it, and those are shown as gaps rather than dropped — an absent region is not a region without the work in it.

ONS, ASHE Table 14 - occupation by four-digit SOC (national). Period 2025. Table

Every regional figure

ONS does not publish occupational pay below region. Cells the survey could not support are shown as withheld, with its reason — adding a region split to a specific occupation leaves roughly a tenth of cells publishable.

Common questions

Classified alongside this

Production managers and directors in manufacturing · Production managers and directors in mining and energy