UK Business Succession Index

Software / SaaS succession in North West

801 of 3,914 software / SaaS companies in North West — 20.5% — have a director aged 60 or over.

That is the 6th highest of 7 UK regions for this trade.

Companies measured3,914
Director aged 60+801
Exposure rate20.5%
Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology
3,914
Companies measured
801
Director 60+
186
Director 70+
20.5%
Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; software / SaaS nationally runs at 21%.

MeasureCompanies
Software / SaaS companies in North West measured3,914
Oldest director aged 60 or over801
Oldest director aged 70 or over186

Of the 801 with a director over 60, 62 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Software / SaaS in other regions

Region60+Rate
South West94927.8%
Wales29927.5%
South East1,81227.4%
East of England81224.5%
East Midlands43724.4%
Yorkshire & The Humber52223.4%
Scotland43323.2%
North East17721.6%

Other trades in North West

Trade60+Rate
Consultancy Services7,20934.6%
Lettings7,20734.4%
Retail4,79920.9%
Investment3,73425.9%
Other Leisure3,55327.8%
Investment / Fund Management3,28736%
Engineering Services3,00336.5%
Property Development2,41838.2%

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.

See UK Technology →

See all Software / SaaS succession data or everything in North West.

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ExitRadar, "Software / SaaS succession in North West", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/tech-software/north-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.