Plumbing, Heating & HVAC succession in Scotland

Name: Plumbing, Heating & HVAC business succession in Scotland
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492 of 2,152 plumbing, heating & HVAC companies in Scotland — 22.9% — have a director aged 60 or over.

That is the 2nd highest of 9 UK regions for this trade.

Companies measured2,152

Director aged 60+492

Exposure rate22.9%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology

2,152

Companies measured

492

Director 60+

115

Director 70+

22.9%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; plumbing, heating & HVAC nationally runs at 20.3%.

Measure	Companies
Plumbing, Heating & HVAC companies in Scotland measured	2,152
Oldest director aged 60 or over	492
Oldest director aged 70 or over	115

Of the 492 with a director over 60, 52 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Plumbing, Heating & HVAC in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
South West	751	24.5%
East Midlands	469	22.7%
West Midlands	611	22.7%
North West	752	21.5%
Wales	264	21.3%
South East	1,200	21.1%
East of England	756	20.5%
Yorkshire & The Humber	555	20.4%

Other trades in Scotland

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	3,930	37.6%
Consultancy Services	3,898	40.8%
Retail	2,680	25.9%
Agriculture	2,266	51.5%
Other Leisure	2,250	32.8%
Investment	2,104	33.7%
Engineering Services	2,065	33.5%
Investment / Fund Management	1,505	40.7%

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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ExitRadar, "Plumbing, Heating & HVAC succession in Scotland", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/const-plumbing/scotland/

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.