Last update: 22 December 2022

Next update: March 2023

Geographic coverage: UK

Headline findings

In the period July 2021 to June 2022, there were approximately 4,332,000 total filled jobs in the DCMS Sectors (excluding Tourism) - representing 12.9% of all UK filled jobs, up from 12.7% in July 2020 to June 2021 and 12.0% in 2019 (pre-pandemic). This reflects that, for DCMS Sectors (excluding Tourism), the number of filled jobs have grown faster than the UK overall since July 2020 to June 2021 (3.2% DCMS vs 1.7% UK) and also compared to pre-pandemic (7.9% DCMS vs 0.1% UK).

In percentage terms, within the included DCMS sectors, the Digital sector has seen the largest employment growth since 2019 (pre-pandemic). Over the same period, of the included DCMS sectors, only the Gambling sector and Sport sector have seen declines in employment. Please note, there is substantial overlap between the DCMS sectors.

Although there is wide variation between sectors in terms of demographic breakdowns, overall the proportion of filled jobs held by women was lower in the DCMS Sectors (excluding Tourism) (44.1%) than the UK overall (47.9%). DCMS Sectors (excluding Tourism) have a slightly smaller share of jobs filled by people from ethnic minority groups (excluding white minorities) or by people with disabilities compared to the UK workforce overall.

About this release

The DCMS Sectors Economic Estimates series for employment are National Statistics used to provide an estimate of employment (defined as number of filled jobs) in the DCMS Sectors. This release gives estimates for the period July 2021 to June 2022 and re-weighted estimates for July 2020 to June 2021. The findings are calculated based on the ONS Annual Population Survey (APS).

Content

These statistics cover the contributions of the following DCMS sectors to the UK economy;

• Civil Society
• Creative Industries
• Cultural Sector
• Digital Sector
• Gambling
• Sport
• Telecoms

Estimates are not available for the Tourism sector for this release. A definition for each sector is available in the accompanying technical document along with details of methods and data limitations.

The UK Statistics Authority

This release is published in accordance with the Code of Practice for Statistics (2018) produced by the UK Statistics Authority (UKSA). The UKSA has the overall objective of promoting and safeguarding the production and publication of official statistics that serve the public good. It monitors and reports on all official statistics, and promotes good practice in this area.

Pre-release access

The accompanying pre-release access document lists ministers and officials who have received privileged early access to this release. In line with best practice, the list has been kept to a minimum and those given access for briefing purposes had a maximum of 24 hours.

Contact

Responsible analyst: George Ashford

For any queries or feedback, please contact evidence@dcms.gov.uk.

Headline findings

In included DCMS sectors in 2021:

In the digital sector in 2021:

About

These economic estimates are official statistics used to provide an estimate of the contribution of DCMS sectors and the digital sector to the UK economy, measured by imports and exports of goods and services. Trade in tourism is estimated by spending by overseas residents in the UK and spending by UK residents overseas as proxy measurements for exports and imports.

Content

These statistics cover the contributions of the following sectors to the UK economy.

DCMS sectors:

• creative industries
• cultural sector
• gambling (services only)
• sport
• tourism (covered on a separate basis to the other sectors)

Users should note that there is overlap between DCMS sector definitions and that several cultural sector industries are simultaneously creative industries.

Estimates of civil society imports and exports are not available at present, due to a lack of suitable data.

The release also includes estimates for the audio visual sector. These do not form part of the DCMS total.

A definition for each sector is available in the tables published alongside this release. Further information on DCMS sectors is available in the associated technical report along with details of methods and data limitations.

Digital sector:

• digital sector
• telecoms (services only)

Users should note that there is overlap between these two sectors’ definitions in that the Telecoms sector sits wholly within the digital sector.

Estimates are published here separately for the digital sector (including the telecoms sector) as responsibility for these policy areas now sits with the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology.

Released

These statistics were first published on 3 August 2023.

Changes to this page

We have made the following changes to this data since publication:

• On 18 August 2023: section 4.1 of the DCMS sectors economic estimates: Trade, 2021 main report was revised to correct a minor error in the commentary.

• 10 November 2023: due to the identification of an error, the DCMS and digital sector Economic Estimates trade in services data tables were removed and re-published with a reduced breakdown for 2021 while the error was being investigated.

• 14 March 2024: the DCMS trade in services tables have been re-published with breakdowns for 2021, including both sectors and subsectors.

• 24 May 2024: The DCMS and digital sector trade in services tables have been further updated and re-published to include revised 2021 and 2020 data. Alongside, we have

Details

Last update: 28 October 2021 Next update: TBC Geographic coverage: UK

Headline Findings

Total filled jobs in DCMS Sectors (excluding tourism) grew by 4.3%, from 4.0 million jobs (12.0% of UK total) in 2019 to 4.2 million jobs (12.7% of all UK jobs) for the 12 months ending June 2021. By comparison, total UK employment fell by 1.6% over the same period, from 33.5 million in 2019, to 33.0 million in July 2020 to June 2021.

The DCMS sector change was primarily driven by growth in the computer programming and consultancy industries (increases of 72 thousand and 65 thousand jobs, respectively) and was partially offset by job losses in the sports sector (65 thousand).

Although there is wide variation between sectors, overall DCMS sectors have lower proportions of workers from less advantaged socio-economic backgrounds, women, and job holders classing themselves as disabled under the Equality Act, than the UK labour force as a whole. On average, DCMS sector jobs have a similar ethnic breakdown to the UK.

In these revised estimates, we have also removed the employment estimates for the Creative and Digital occupations, their respective Standard Occupation Classification (SOC) codes, and estimates for socio-economic class of current occupation within the data table. The underlying data from July 2020 to December 2020 uses SOC2010 and the data from January 2021 to June 2021 uses SOC2020. We aren’t currently able to calculate an accurate aggregate estimate for the 12 month period, both because of the challenges of aggregating estimates based on the two different sets of SOC codes and because ONS have identified an https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/articles/theimpactofmiscodingofoccupationaldatainofficefornationalstatisticssocialsurveysuk/2022-09-26">issue with the SOC2020 codes.

About this release

These Economic Estimates are Official Statistics used to provide an estimate of employment (number of filled jobs) in the DCMS Sectors, for the calendar year 2019, the

The release presents the latest data, in chart and tabular form, for the indices of productivity (based to 2004) for the creative and tourism and leisure related industries as well as for the service sector and UK economy as a whole.

Date of release: 8 June 2010

Geographic coverage & breakdown

United Kingdom

Release

• http://www.culture.gov.uk/images/publications/productivityoftheCTLI_statrelese.pdf">Estimates of Productivity of the ‘Creative’ and ‘Tourism & Leisure’ Industries (PDF 90kb)
• http://www.culture.gov.uk/images/publications/productivityoftheCTLIstatrelese.rtf">Estimates of Productivity of the ‘Creative’ and ‘Tourism & Leisure’ Industries (RTF 2.3mb)

Link to previous release

http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/publications/6242.aspx">June 2009

The UK Statistics Authority

This release is published in accordance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics (2009), as produced by the http://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/">UK Statistics Authority (UKSA). The UKSA has the overall objective of promoting and safeguarding the production and publication of official statistics that serve the public good. It monitors and reports on all official statistics, and promotes good practice in this area.

Enquiries

For enquiries on this release, please contact evidence@culture.gsi.gov.uk.

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