Operating picture · measured 2026-09-09
4,027 US IT providers name construction — and they are the best-credentialed vertical group we measure.
Construction is claimed by one provider in ten. Unusually, the firms that claim it are twice as likely as the market to show a buyer third-party proof.
of the 4,027 construction-serving providers show a certification, against 15.7% directory-wide
n = 39,235 published US providers, of which 4,027 name construction, contracting or building among the verticals they serve; defense, federal and government contracting tags are excluded, because "contractor" in those senses is not construction. Verticals are on file for 25,458 of the 39,235, so 10.3% is a floor. Shares labeled "of the construction group" are against those 4,027. Measured 2026-09-09 in one repeatable-read snapshot.
- Shows a certification
- 32.1%
- Shows a Google rating
- 67.9%
- Median reviews, rated firms
- 12
- Names compliance work
- 53.3%
- Shows a certification
- 15.7%
- Shows a Google rating
- 44.3%
- Median reviews, rated firms
- 9
- Names compliance work
- 29.2%
The published statistic behind this
Cybersecurity is the most common published service among IT providers: 16,425 firms of the 36,575 that list any service at all.
n = 36,575 providers listing at least one service · measured 2026-09-17. The figures on this page are frozen at their own measurement date and are not recomputed from that table.
Services offered prevalence ▸One provider in ten, and a better-credentialed one
4,027 of 39,235 published US providers name construction among the verticals they serve — 10.3%. That is narrower than education at 15.5% or manufacturing at 17.6%, and wider than any of the specialty verticals on this site.
The finding worth reporting is not the size of the group, it is its quality signals. 1,291 of the 4,027 show a certification — 32.1%, against 15.7% across the whole directory. A construction-serving provider is roughly twice as likely as the average firm here to put third-party proof where a buyer can see it.
2,734 show a Google rating, or 67.9%, against 44.3% directory-wide, at a median of 12 reviews among rated firms against 9. On both of the independent signals we hold, this group runs ahead of the market rather than behind it.
Why a jobsite pushes providers to prove things
2,147 of the group, or 53.3%, name compliance work as a service, against 29.2% directory-wide. Construction carries obligations that arrive through contracts rather than regulators — owner-controlled insurance, prequalification packets, defense and federal subcontracting flow-downs — and those are answered with documents.
That is a plausible reading of the pattern, not a measured cause. What we can say is that the group claiming construction publishes more proof and more compliance service than the market, and that the two move together.
The median construction-naming firm that publishes a headcount reports 10 staff across the 3,710 that publish one, barely above the directory's 9. So this is not a group of larger firms; it is a group of similarly sized firms that document more.
Where they are, and the pricing blank
California 467, Texas 408, Florida 308, New York 198, Virginia 156 and Illinois 145 lead by provider headquarters. Virginia in fifth place is the one departure from a straight population ranking, and it is also where federal contracting concentrates.
96 of the 4,027 publish a per-user, per-month rate — 2.4% of the group, the highest of the three verticals measured in this edition, and still far too thin to quote a construction benchmark from.
308 firms, or 7.6%, name construction as the only vertical they serve. That is the closest thing to a specialist list this vertical has.
What this number can't tell you
- ·This measures what providers publish, not who they serve. Any provider with construction clients who never names the vertical is counted in the 89.7%.
- ·Verticals are on file for 25,458 of the 39,235 published firms, so 10.3% is a floor and an unknown counts against it.
- ·Defense, federal, government and DoD contracting tags are deliberately excluded. A substring match on "contractor" pulled 59 such mentions into an earlier count of this group; they are a different market and would have inflated it.
- ·Certification shares reflect what a provider publishes: 2,736 of the 4,027 do not show us a certification. Read that as "do not show us one", not as a claim about what firms hold. Note that the no-certification remainder and the Google-rating share both round to 67.9% in this group; they are unrelated figures that happen to coincide.
- ·The link drawn between contract-driven obligations and the higher certification share is an interpretation of the pattern, not a measured relationship. We measured the two shares; we did not measure cause.
- ·Median headcount is over the 3,710 firms in the group that publish one, and self-published headcounts are not audited.
- ·Rating values are not plotted, only the presence of a rating and the review count. google_rating bunches at the top of its range.
- ·Only 96 firms in the group publish a per-seat rate, so no pricing figure is given for construction.
What to do about it
- ▸Buying: this is one vertical where asking for credentials is likely to be answered — a third of the group already publishes them. Ask for the prequalification and insurance documentation you will need from an IT vendor, and for jobsite connectivity references, not office references.
- ▸Selling: the bar in construction is higher than the directory average, so a certification and a named compliance service are table stakes here rather than a differentiator. The 7.6% who name construction alone are the competitive set worth studying.
Questions this finding answers
- How many US MSPs serve construction companies?
- Construction is claimed by one provider in ten. Unusually, the firms that claim it are twice as likely as the market to show a buyer third-party proof.
- How was this measured?
- n = 39,235 published US providers, of which 4,027 name construction, contracting or building among the verticals they serve; defense, federal and government contracting tags are excluded, because "contractor" in those senses is not construction. Verticals are on file for 25,458 of the 39,235, so 10.3% is a floor. Shares labeled "of the construction group" are against those 4,027. Measured 2026-09-09 in one repeatable-read snapshot.
- What can't this number tell you?
- This measures what providers publish, not who they serve. Any provider with construction clients who never names the vertical is counted in the 89.7%.
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More findings
- 17.6%6,897 US IT providers name manufacturing — 17.6% of the market, and the largest firms of any vertical we measure.
- 94.7%19,959 US providers sell security. 1,071 name a capability that detects an attack.
- 42.8%16,794 US providers name cybersecurity. Every specific security service is named by under 3.1% of the market.
- 0.95%374 US IT providers name security-operations work — 0.95% of the market.