Accounting / Audit succession in London

Name: Accounting / Audit business succession in London
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4,205 of 14,435 accounting / audit companies in London — 29.1% — have a director aged 60 or over.

That is the 8th highest of 8 UK regions for this trade.

Companies measured14,435

Director aged 60+4,205

Exposure rate29.1%

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

14,435

Companies measured

4,205

Director 60+

1,490

Director 70+

29.1%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; accounting / audit nationally runs at 34.9%.

Measure	Companies
Accounting / Audit companies in London measured	14,435
Oldest director aged 60 or over	4,205
Oldest director aged 70 or over	1,490

Of the 4,205 with a director over 60, 224 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Accounting / Audit in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
South West	1,484	42.8%
Wales	582	40.4%
South East	2,732	40.2%
North East	351	38.5%
Scotland	726	37.2%
East Midlands	843	36.9%
Northern Ireland	242	36.6%
East of England	1,385	36.2%

Other trades in London

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	20,963	33.6%
Consultancy Services	19,678	28.2%
Investment	14,536	28.6%
Investment / Fund Management	10,116	33.7%
Other Leisure	10,038	26.5%
Media	9,313	28%
Retail	9,210	15.2%
IT Services / Consultancy	7,702	15.8%

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 Professional Services pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

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ExitRadar, "Accounting / Audit succession in London", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/prof-accounting/london/

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.