UK Business Succession Index

Civil Engineering succession in West Midlands

534 of 1,594 civil engineering companies in West Midlands — 33.5% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured1,594
Director aged 60+534
Exposure rate33.5%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology
1,594
Companies measured
534
Director 60+
193
Director 70+
33.5%
Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; civil engineering nationally runs at 30.7%.

MeasureCompanies
Civil Engineering companies in West Midlands measured1,594
Oldest director aged 60 or over534
Oldest director aged 70 or over193

Of the 534 with a director over 60, 65 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Civil Engineering in other regions

Region60+Rate
South West58437.9%
Wales37035.7%
Scotland41534.7%
South East84932.7%
Yorkshire & The Humber47332.2%
East of England62832.1%
East Midlands36530.9%
North West70429.4%

Other trades in West Midlands

Trade60+Rate
Consultancy Services5,02638.2%
Lettings4,85433.7%
Retail3,54420.8%
Investment2,98527.5%
Investment / Fund Management2,54237%
Other Leisure2,40330.2%
Property Development1,99643.3%
Engineering Services1,85937.3%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

Next step

This page counts director ages across the whole register. If you are looking to buy rather than to research, our Construction & Trades pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

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See all Civil Engineering succession data or everything in West Midlands.

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ExitRadar, "Civil Engineering succession in West Midlands", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/const-civil/west-midlands/

Need a cut that is not published here — a different trade grouping, a finer geography, or the underlying distribution? Get in touch and we will usually provide it. Methodology.

Method. Figures cover the 3,475,770 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director — 93.8% of the 3,706,712 companies on the active register. A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over — not the board average, which would hide a 70-year-old founder sitting alongside younger co-directors. The business-quality figure covers only the subset our model assesses — see the methodology for why that is far smaller than the number with filed accounts. Data as at 13 August 2026; updated quarterly, next update October 2026. Full methodology.