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Facilities Management Services in Australia - Market Research Report (2015-2030)

Jayson Cooke Jayson Cooke Melbourne, Australia Last Updated: February 2025 ANZSIC OD5528

Revenue

$11.4bn

2025-26

$11.6bn

Past 5-Year Growth

Profit

$XXX.Xm

Employees

93,981

Businesses

119

Wages

$X.Xbn

Facilities Management Services in Australia industry analysis

The Facilities Management industry has experienced significant revenue shifts in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly in the private sector, where reduced demand exposed vulnerabilities. Ongoing work-from-home policies, contract renegotiations and inflationary pressures have also hindered revenue growth, leading to cautious outsourcing for facilities management. Despite these challenges, the education and healthcare sectors have shown resilience thanks to infrastructure investments and demand for specialised services regarding heightened hygiene awareness. Government contracts have offered stability, but inflation-related scrutiny of government spending requires firms to deliver exceptional value to retain essential agreements. Overall, industry revenue has climbed at an annualised 0.2% over the past five years and is expected to total $11.4 billion in 2024-25, when revenue will drop by an estimated 0.2%.

Trends and Insights

  • The Facilities Management industry has shown resilience despite challenging economic conditions, with education and healthcare driving growth. Demand for specialised services and heightened hygiene awareness have prompted the expansion of service portfolios.
  • Fiscal constraints have reduced demand for minor maintenance services. Despite technological advances like IoT and BIM improving maintenance efficiency, decreased government spending has negatively impacted revenue in this essential segment.
  • The more populous states are home to a greater number of facility managers. New South Wales and Victoria have a stronger need for facilities management services as a larger population leads to higher business numbers.
  • Competitive facilities managers can offer a wide range of services. Larger companies can focus on diversifying to secure both small and large projects, allowing them to expand their market share.

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Industry Statistics and Trends

Market size and recent performance (2015-2030)

Industry revenue has grown at a CAGR of 0.2 % over the past five years, to reach an estimated $11.4bn in 2025.

Trends and Insights

Facilities management firms navigate revenue shifts amid healthcare growth and private sector challenges

  • The Facilities Management industry faced notable revenue disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic, driven by reduced demand, the trend of working from home and contract renegotiations triggered by economic disruption. This period underscored facility management firms' sensitivity to economic changes and traditional service models based on inadequacies in fixed-location operations.
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Facilities Management Services in Australia
Revenue (2015-2030)
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Industry outlook (2025-2030)

Market size is projected to grow over the next five years.

Trends and Insights

Improved economic conditions set the industry up for growth

  • The Australian Facilities Management industry is set to experience consistent growth over the next few years. A projected decline in the cash rate will drive private-sector investments. This economic adjustment will enable businesses to seek more efficient external facilities service solutions, contributing to a more vibrant, less reluctant spending market environment.

Biggest companies in the Facilities Management Services in Australia

Company
Market Share (%)
2025
Revenue ($m)
2025
1,257.4
983.5
652.1

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Products & Services Segmentation

Facilities Management Services in Australia
Products & Services
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Industry revenue is measured across several distinct product and services lines, including Major maintenance services, Minor maintenance services and Cleaning services. Major maintenance services is the largest segment of the Facilities Management Services in Australia.

Trends and Insights

Fiscal challenges hurt demand for minor maintenance services

  • Minor maintenance services involve routine tasks like small repairs, garden care and other property upkeep activities. These services are essential for maintaining the aesthetic and functional aspects of properties.
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Table of Contents

About this industry

Industry definition

Facilities managers primarily provide non-core business services that allow buildings and precincts to operate effectively. These include monitoring, planning and management services like cleaning, gardening, security and maintenance. Facilities management services are typically provided under contract. The industry doesn't include major maintenance services for infrastructure like roads, tunnels, railway lines, bridges, dams or public utility networks.

What's included in this industry?

Major maintenance servicesMinor maintenance servicesCleaning servicesWorkplace safety servicesAccommodation servicesPest controlEnergy and environmental managementSoft facilities management

Companies

VentiaDownerCompass

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Related Terms

PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP (PPP)ENGINEERING STRUCTURESHEATING, VENTILATION AND AIR CONDITIONING (HVAC)WORKING FROM HOME (WFH)

Industry Code

ANZSIC 2006

ANZSIC 7311 - Facilities Management Services in Australia

Performance

Get an indication of the industry's health through historical, current and forward-looking trends in the performance indicators that make or break businesses.

Analyst insights

The Facilities Management industry has shown resilience despite challenging economic conditions, with education and healthcare driving growth. Demand for specialised services...

In this chapter (4)

  • Current Performance
  • Outlook
  • Volatility
  • Life Cycle

Key metrics

  • Annual Revenue, Recent Growth, Forecast, Revenue Volatility
  • Number of Employees, Recent Growth, Forecast, Employees per Business, Revenue per Employee
  • Number of Businesses, Recent Growth, Forecast, Employees per Business, Revenue per Business
  • Total Profit, Profit Margin, Profit per Business

Charts

  • Revenue, including historical (2015-2024) and forecast (2025-2030)
  • Employees, including historical (2015-2024) and forecast (2025-2030)
  • Businesses, including historical (2015-2024) and forecast (2025-2030)
  • Profit, including historical (2015-2025)
  • Industry Volatility vs. Revenue Growth
  • Industry Life Cycle

Detailed analysis

  • Trends in supply, demand and current events that are driving current industry performance
  • Expected trends, economic factors and ongoing events that drive the industry's outlook
  • Key success factors for businesses to overcome volatility
  • How contribution to GDP, industry saturation, innovation, consolidation, and technology and systems influence the industry's life cycle phase.

Products and Markets

Learn about an industry's products and services, markets and trends in international trade.

Analyst insight

Fiscal constraints have reduced demand for minor maintenance services. Despite technological advances like IoT and BIM improving maintenance efficiency, decreased government ...

In this chapter

  • Products & Services
  • Major Markets

Key metrics

  • Largest market segment and value in 2025
  • Product innovation level

Charts

  • Products & services segmentation in 2025
  • Major market segmentation in 2025

Detailed analysis

  • Trends impacting the recent performance of the industry's various segments
  • Innovations in the industry's product or service offering, specialization or delivery method
  • Key factors that successful businesses consider in their offerings
  • Buying segments and key trends influencing demand for industry products and services

Geographic Breakdown

Discover where business activity is most concentrated in an industry and the factors driving these trends to find opportunities and conduct regional benchmarking.

Analyst insights

The more populous states are home to a greater number of facility managers. New South Wales and Victoria have a stronger need for facilities management services as a larger p...

In this chapter (1)

  • Business Locations

Charts

  • Share of revenue, establishment, wages and employment in each region
  • Share of population compared to establishments in each region in 2025

Tables

  • Number and share of establishments in each region in 2025
  • Number and share of revenue each region accounts for in 2025
  • Number and share of wages each region accounts for in 2025
  • Number and share of employees in each region in 2025

Detailed analysis

  • Geographic spread of the industry across Asia Pacific, and trends associated with changes in the business landscape
  • Key success factors for businesses to use location to their advantage

Competitive Forces

Get data and insights on what's driving competition in an industry and the challenges industry operators and new entrants may face, with analysis built around Porter's Five Forces framework.

Analyst insights

Competitive facilities managers can offer a wide range of services. Larger companies can focus on diversifying to secure both small and large projects, allowing them to expan...

In this chapter (4)

  • Concentration
  • Barriers to Entry
  • Substitutes
  • Buyer & Supplier Analysis

Key metrics

  • Industry concentration level
  • Industry competition level and trend
  • Barriers to entry level and trend
  • Substitutes level and trend
  • Buyer power level and trend
  • Supplier power level and trend

Charts

  • Market share concentration among the top 4 suppliers from 2020-2025
  • Supply chain including upstream supplying industries and downstream buying industries, flow chart

Detailed analysis

  • Factors impacting the industry’s level of concentration, such as business distribution, new entrants, or merger and acquisition activity.
  • Key success factors for businesses to manage the competitive environment of the industry.
  • Challenges that potential industry entrants face such as legal, start-up costs, differentiation, labor/capital intensity and capital expenses.
  • Key success factors for potential entrants to overcome barriers to entry.
  • Competitive threats from potential substitutes for the industry’s own products and services.
  • Key success factors for how successful businesses can compete with substitutes.
  • Advantages that buyers have to keep favorable purchasing conditions.
  • Advantages that suppliers have to maintain favorable selling conditions.
  • Key success factors for how businesses can navigate buyer and supplier power.

Companies

Learn about the performance of the top companies in the industry.

Analyst insights

The larger facilities management firms began by acquiring existing businesses. These companies have leveraged their access to capital to enter the industry.

In this chapter

  • Market Share Concentration
  • Companies
  • Company Spotlights

Charts

  • Industry market share by company in 2021 through 2025
  • Major companies in the industry, including market share, revenue, profit and profit margin in 2025
  • Overview of Ventia's performance by revenue, market share and profit margin from 2019 through 2025
  • Overview of Downer's performance by revenue, market share and profit margin from 2019 through 2025
  • Overview of Compass's performance by revenue, market share and profit margin from 2019 through 2025
  • Overview of revenue, market share and profit margin trend for 4 additional companies

Detailed analysis

  • Description and key data for Ventia, and factors influencing its performance in the industry
  • Description and key data for Downer, and factors influencing its performance in the industry
  • Description and key data for Compass, and factors influencing its performance in the industry
  • Description, key data and performance trends for 4 additional companies

External Environment

Understand the demographic, economic and regulatory factors that shape how businesses in an industry perform.   

Analyst insights

Facilities management firms benefit from a growing number of businesses in Australia. Medium to large businesses often outsource non-core activities, creating more opportunit...

In this chapter

  • External Drivers
  • Regulation & Policy
  • Assistance

Key metrics

  • Regulation & policy level and trend
  • Assistance level and trend

Charts

  • Regulation & Policy historical data and forecast (2015-2030) 
  • Assistance historical data and forecast (2015-2030) 

Detailed analysis

  • Demographic and macroeconomic factors influencing the industry, including Regulation & Policy and Assistance
  • Major types of regulations, regulatory bodies, industry standards or specific regulations impacting requirements for industry operators
  • Key governmental and non-governmental groups or policies that may provide some relief for industry operators.

Financial Benchmarks

View average costs for industry operators and compare financial data against an industry's financial benchmarks over time. 

Analyst insights

As more clients take their facilities management in-house, they're pushing providers to lower contract prices or offer new services. This trend puts pressure on facilities ma...

In this chapter

  • Cost Structure
  • Financial Ratios
  • Key Ratios

Key metrics

  • Profit margin, and how it compares to the sector-wide margin
  • Average wages, and how it compares to the sector-wide average wage
  • Largest cost component as a percentage of revenue
  • Industry average ratios for days' receivables, industry coverage and debt-to-net-worth ratio

Charts

  • Average industry operating costs as a share of revenue, including purchases, wages, depreciation, utilities, rent, other costs and profit in 2025
  • Average sector operating costs as a share of revenue, including purchases, wages, depreciation, utilities, rent, other costs and profit in 2025
  • Investment vs. share of economy

Data tables

  • Cash Flow & Debt Service Ratios (2015-2030)
  • Revenue per Employee (2015-2030)
  • Revenue per Enterprise (2015-2030)
  • Employees per Establishment (2015-2030)
  • Employees per Enterprise (2015-2030)
  • Average Wage (2015-2030)
  • Wages/Revenue (2015-2030)
  • Establishments per Enterprise (2015-2030)
  • IVA/Revenue (2015-2030)
  • Imports/Demand (2015-2030)
  • Exports/Revenue (2015-2030)

Detailed analysis

  • Trends in the cost component for industry operators and their impact on industry costs and profitability 

Key Statistics

Industry Data

Data Tables

Including values and annual change:

  • Revenue (2015-2030)
  • IVA (2015-2030)
  • Establishments (2015-2030)
  • Enterprises (2015-2030)
  • Employment (2015-2030)
  • Exports (2015-2030)
  • Imports (2015-2030)
  • Wages (2015-2030)

Top Questions Answered

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What is the market size of the Facilities Management Services industry in Australia in 2025?

The market size of the Facilities Management Services industry in Australia is $11.4bn in 2025.

How many businesses are there in the Facilities Management Services in Australia industry in 2025?

There are 119 businesses in the Facilities Management Services industry in Australia, which has grown at a CAGR of 4.4 % between 2020 and 2025.

Has the Facilities Management Services industry in Australia grown or declined over the past 5 years?

The market size of the Facilities Management Services industry in Australia has been growing at a CAGR of 0.2 % between 2020 and 2025.

What is the forecast growth of the Facilities Management Services industry in Australia over the next 5 years?

Over the next five years, the Facilities Management Services industry in Australia is expected to grow.

What are the biggest companies in the Facilities Management Services market in Australia?

The biggest companies operating in the Facilities Management Services market in Australia are Ventia, Downer and Compass

What does the Facilities Management Services in Australia include?

Major maintenance services and Minor maintenance services are part of the Facilities Management Services industry.

Which companies have the highest market share in the Facilities Management Services in Australia?

The company holding the most market share in Australia is Ventia.

How competitive is the Facilities Management Services industry in Australia?

The level of competition is high and increasing in the Facilities Management Services industry in Australia.

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Key data sources in Australia include:

  • Australian Bureau of Statistics
  • Australian Taxation Office
  • Australian Securities & Investments Commission

Analysts also use industry specific sources to complement catch-all sources, although their perspective may focus on a particular organization or representative body, rather than a clear overview of all industry operations. However, when balanced against other perspectives, industry-specific sources provide insights into industry trends.

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  • Industry and trade associations
  • Industry federations or regulators
  • Major industry players annual or quarterly filings

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