Consultancy Services: business succession in the UK

Name: Consultancy Services business succession in the UK
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78,788 UK consultancy services companies (35.4%) have a director aged 60 or over.

3.0 points above the all-trades average of 32.4%.

Companies measured222,289

Director aged 60+78,788

Exposure rate35.4%

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

222,289

Companies measured

78,788

With a director 60+

21,509

With a director 70+

35.4%

Exposure rate

Of the 78,788 with a director over 60, 2,343 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.

Consultancy Services by region

Region	Companies	60+	Rate
South West	15,474	6,563	42.4%
South East	38,995	16,025	41.1%
Scotland	9,816	3,979	40.5%
Wales	4,828	1,911	39.6%
East Midlands	11,626	4,554	39.2%
West Midlands	14,421	5,526	38.3%
Yorkshire & The Humber	11,793	4,407	37.4%
East of England	22,563	8,390	37.2%
Northern Ireland	2,423	885	36.5%
North East	4,068	1,466	36%
North West	21,114	7,211	34.2%
London	65,071	17,832	27.4%

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.

See UK Professional Services →

Part of the UK Business Succession Index.

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ExitRadar, "Consultancy Services: business succession in the UK", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/prof-consulting/

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.