UK Business Succession Index

Digital Agency succession in South East

52 of 259 digital agency companies in South East — 20.1% — have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured259
Director aged 60+52
Exposure rate20.1%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,516,113·Data as at 30 August 2026·Full methodology
259
Companies measured
52
Director 60+
13
Director 70+
20.1%
Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; digital agency nationally runs at 14.3%.

MeasureCompanies
Digital Agency companies in South East measured259
Oldest director aged 60 or over52
Oldest director aged 70 or over13

Of the 52 with a director over 60, 5 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Digital Agency in other regions

Region60+Rate
London6711.8%

Other trades in South East

Trade60+Rate
Consultancy Services15,72041.3%
Lettings10,85942.5%
Retail6,42326.3%
Investment6,02733.5%
Other Leisure5,83133.2%
IT Services / Consultancy5,77725.3%
Investment / Fund Management4,85040.1%
Property Development4,60546.1%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

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ExitRadar, "Digital Agency succession in South East", UK Business Succession Index, 30 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/tech-digital-agency/south-east/

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 3,516,113 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director — 93.9% of the 3,746,409 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 30 August 2026; updated quarterly, next update October 2026. Full methodology.