UK Business Succession Index

Architecture / Design succession in West Midlands

638 of 2,257 architecture / design companies in West Midlands — 28.3% — have a director aged 60 or over.

That is the 1st highest of 7 UK regions for this trade.

Companies measured2,257
Director aged 60+638
Exposure rate28.3%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology
2,257
Companies measured
638
Director 60+
189
Director 70+
28.3%
Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; architecture / design nationally runs at 24.3%.

MeasureCompanies
Architecture / Design companies in West Midlands measured2,257
Oldest director aged 60 or over638
Oldest director aged 70 or over189

Of the 638 with a director over 60, 36 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Architecture / Design in other regions

Region60+Rate
Scotland56430%
Wales28728.6%
South East1,66127.6%
North East22627.2%
South West91927%
Northern Ireland15726.8%
East of England80726.6%
East Midlands47225.9%

Other trades in West Midlands

Trade60+Rate
Consultancy Services5,02638.2%
Lettings4,85433.7%
Retail3,54420.8%
Investment2,98527.5%
Investment / Fund Management2,54237%
Other Leisure2,40330.2%
Property Development1,99643.3%
Engineering Services1,85937.3%

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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See all Architecture / Design succession data or everything in West Midlands.

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ExitRadar, "Architecture / Design succession in West Midlands", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/prof-architecture/west-midlands/

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.