A severe shortage of white-collar staff is seeing salaries for some construction professionals break the £100,000 barrier.
Soaring pay rates are concentrated in London and the South East for pre-construction professionals like planning and design managers.
Estimators are also seeing wages rocket while the era of £100,000-a-year project managers is approaching.
One recruitment specialist at a major contractor said: “It’s getting crazy out there – we are having to pay director-style wages to get professional staff.”
