UK Business Succession Index

Data / Cloud / Hosting succession in South West

455 of 1,490 data / cloud / hosting companies in South West — 30.5% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured1,490
Director aged 60+455
Exposure rate30.5%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology
1,490
Companies measured
455
Director 60+
130
Director 70+
30.5%
Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; data / cloud / hosting nationally runs at 24.1%.

MeasureCompanies
Data / Cloud / Hosting companies in South West measured1,490
Oldest director aged 60 or over455
Oldest director aged 70 or over130

Of the 455 with a director over 60, 24 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Data / Cloud / Hosting in other regions

Region60+Rate
Scotland23830.8%
Wales15230.5%
South East89730.3%
East Midlands20127.4%
East of England43226.9%
West Midlands29624.6%
North East8923.7%
Yorkshire & The Humber25023.7%

Other trades in South West

Trade60+Rate
Consultancy Services6,65843%
Lettings6,11444.9%
Retail4,23932%
Other Leisure3,12436%
Agriculture2,77756.9%
Property Development2,71648.2%
Investment2,68537.7%
Investment / Fund Management2,47340%

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 Technology 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 Data / Cloud / Hosting succession data or everything in South West.

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ExitRadar, "Data / Cloud / Hosting succession in South West", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/tech-data-cloud/south-west/

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.