Roofing: business succession in the UK

Name: Roofing business succession in the UK
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2,874 UK roofing companies — 24.1% — have a director aged 60 or over.

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

Companies measured11,901

Director aged 60+2,874

Exposure rate24.1%

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

11,901

Companies measured

2,874

With a director 60+

717

With a director 70+

24.1%

Exposure rate

Of the 2,874 with a director over 60, 287 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Roofing by region

Region	Companies	60+	Rate
Wales	446	142	31.8%
West Midlands	934	267	28.6%
South West	1,096	308	28.1%
East Midlands	683	189	27.7%
East of England	1,275	328	25.7%
Yorkshire & The Humber	967	230	23.8%
Scotland	899	208	23.1%
South East	1,927	441	22.9%
North West	1,322	295	22.3%
North East	409	89	21.8%
London	1,816	344	18.9%

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, "Roofing: business succession in the UK", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/const-roofing/

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.