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Clients handed out nearly £4.6bn worth of work in November – an increase of almost £800m from the previous month, according to the latest data from Glenigan.

The figures (see below) reveal that the most work was awarded in the infrastructure sector, with firms here inking deals worth just under £1.2bn – or around 25% of all work awarded in the month.

The top client in this sector was Network Rail, which handed out 13 deals worth £801m, just over two-thirds of the total value of civils deals.

The next most prolific sector was social housing, with clients here awarding firms £1.04bn of work.

This was followed by those in the utilities sector, at £389m, and industrial clients awarding £387m worth of work.

Meanwhile, the data has also revealed that £8.62bn worth of projects were approved in November, up from the near £6bn rubber-stamped the previous month.

The private housing sector was the market with the most approvals, securing permission for 354 schemes worth £2.8bn.

In private housing, Barratt secured approval for the most schemes, with the firm given the go-ahead on six projects.

It was followed by Vistry and Persimmon who got approval to push ahead with five developments each. This does not include projects that are being developed as joint ventures.

After private residential, civil infrastructure achieved the second-highest value of approvals at £2.2bn.

* private housing awards data refers to external contracts only and does not include frameworks

** projects awarded by a joint venture are listed independently to both single party clients