Plumbing & Heating succession in Scotland

Name: Plumbing & Heating business succession in Scotland
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471 of 2,146 plumbing & heating companies in Scotland (21.9%) have a director aged 60 or over.

That is the 4th highest of 9 UK regions for this trade.

Companies measured2,146

Director aged 60+471

Exposure rate21.9%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,631,842·Data as at 11 October 2026·Full methodology

2,146

Companies measured

471

Director 60+

109

Director 70+

21.9%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.4%; plumbing & heating nationally runs at 19.9%.

Measure	Companies
Plumbing & Heating companies in Scotland measured	2,146
Oldest director aged 60 or over	471
Oldest director aged 70 or over	109

Of the 471 with a director over 60, 54 score 50 or higher on business quality. That figure is an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Plumbing & Heating in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
South West	708	24%
West Midlands	636	22.5%
East Midlands	517	21.9%
Wales	247	21.1%
North West	699	20.9%
South East	1,224	20.3%
Yorkshire & The Humber	509	20.2%
East of England	858	19.8%

Other trades in Scotland

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	4,028	37%
Consultancy Services	3,979	40.5%
Retail	2,697	25.3%
Agriculture	2,268	50.9%
Other Leisure	2,235	32.6%
Engineering Services	2,119	33.4%
Investment	2,115	33.3%
Investment / Fund Management	1,634	40.5%

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 succession in Scotland", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/const-plumbing/scotland/

Need a cut that is not published here, such as 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 3,631,842 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director (94.0% of the 3,863,328 companies on the active register). A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over. We do not use 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 11 October 2026; updated quarterly, next update January 2027. Full methodology.