IT Services / Consultancy succession in Northern Ireland

Name: IT Services / Consultancy business succession in Northern Ireland
Creator: ExitRadar
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254 of 1,174 IT services / consultancy companies in Northern Ireland (21.6%) have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured1,174

Director aged 60+254

Exposure rate21.6%

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

1,174

Companies measured

254

Director 60+

Director 70+

21.6%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.4%; IT services / consultancy nationally runs at 20.7%.

Measure	Companies
IT Services / Consultancy companies in Northern Ireland measured	1,174
Oldest director aged 60 or over	254
Oldest director aged 70 or over	54

Of the 254 with a director over 60, 18 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.

IT Services / Consultancy in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
South West	2,340	27%
Wales	630	25.6%
East Midlands	1,503	25.2%
South East	5,861	25.1%
Scotland	1,116	24.6%
East of England	3,100	23%
Yorkshire & The Humber	1,319	22.3%
West Midlands	1,814	21.4%

Other trades in Northern Ireland

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	1,347	44.1%
Retail	1,052	25.8%
Investment	970	43.9%
Consultancy Services	885	36.5%
General Construction	817	40.4%
Agriculture	789	46.7%
Investment / Fund Management	731	39.4%
Property Development	722	46.3%

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 IT & Tech 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, "IT Services / Consultancy succession in Northern Ireland", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/tech-it-services/northern-ireland/

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.