Director/PDMR Shareholding

John Wood Group PLC ("Company")


The Company was informed that on 21 March 2006, the Trustees of the John Wood
Group PLC US Employee Share Trust (the "US EST"):

  * sold 14,400 ordinary shares in the capital of the Company at a £2.544557
    per share, being 0.00279% of the share capital of the Company pursuant to
    an exercise of share options under the John Wood Group PLC 2000 Approved
    Executive Share Option Scheme and the John Wood Group PLC 2000 Unapproved
    Executive Share Option Scheme (together "Schemes").
   
Following these transactions, the US EST holds a total of 1,234,350 ordinary
shares representing 0.2395% of the share capital of the Company.

The class of discretionary beneficiaries for whom the US EST holds such shares
consists of employees of the Company, including the following executive
directors of the Company: Wendell R Brooks and Alan G Semple. Each of such
directors is accordingly deemed to be beneficially interested in all of such
shares held by the US EST.

The transactions noted above do not involve any of the named executive
directors or any persons discharging managerial responsibility.

  

Name of authorised company official responsible for making this notification.

 

IAN JOHNSON, COMPANY SECRETARY.