UK Business Succession Index

Electrical Installation: business succession in the UK

8,164 UK electrical installation companies — 20.4% — have a director aged 60 or over.

12.1 points below the all-trades average of 32.5%.

Companies measured39,970
Director aged 60+8,164
Exposure rate20.4%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology
39,970
Companies measured
8,164
With a director 60+
1,862
With a director 70+
20.4%
Exposure rate

Of the 8,164 with a director over 60, 694 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Electrical Installation by region

RegionCompanies60+Rate
West Midlands3,08469422.5%
South West3,24772522.3%
East Midlands2,52154421.6%
North West4,10488221.5%
South East5,9961,28621.4%
Wales1,45130621.1%
East of England4,23887120.6%
Yorkshire & The Humber3,17764720.4%
North East1,33026820.2%
Scotland2,31445519.7%
Northern Ireland79714117.7%
London7,6921,34217.4%

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.

See UK Construction & Trades →

Part of the UK Business Succession Index.

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ExitRadar, "Electrical Installation: business succession in the UK", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/const-electrical/

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.