EDUCATION


Entries for GCSEs in arts and creative subjects fell by 8% in 2016, according to official statistics published by Ofqual. This was compared with a growth of 0.3% in the total number of GCSE entries in all subjects.


This was a drop of 46,000 in entries in art and design subjects, design and technology, drama, media film and TV studies, music, and performing/expressive arts compared with 2015.


8%


Most seriously affected was design and technology, which attracted


fewer exam entries in 2016. Least affected was music with


19,000 1,500


fewer candidates. REGIONS


The creative industries accounted for 5.8% of all jobs in the UK in 2015. It ranged from 1 in 30 jobs (3.2%) in the North East to 1 in 8 jobs (11.%) in London. Almost a third (30.8%) of all creative industries jobs were based in London.


5.8% 1.4%


Growth of film and TV industries in Yorkshire and Humber outstrips that of every other


part of the UK, increasing by 40% from 2015 to 2016.


2.9%


PROPORTION OF UK CREATIVE INDUSTRIES JOBS BY REGION


EXPORTS OF SERVICES


£19.8 bn


The value of services exported by the UK creative industries in 2014 was £19.8 billion, an increase of 10.9% from 2013.


BY CONTINENT AND MARKET OF INTEREST


Europe was the continent in receipt of the majority of exports of services from the UK creative industries in 2014, with 57.3 per cent of the total exports of services by UK creative industries.


£11.4 billion


1 in 17 jobs The creative industries


57.3%


accounted for 1 in 17 of all jobs in the UK in 2015.


The US was the market in receipt of the greatest proportion of exports of services from the UK creative industries in 2014, with 25.3 per cent of the total exports of services.


£5 billion


The creative industries could deliver close to £130 billion GVA by 2025 and approximately one million new jobs could be created by 2030.


CREATIVE BUSINESSES


EMPLOYMENT AND JOBS 2.9 million


Total jobs in the creative economy across the UK. This increased by 5.1 per cent between 2014 and 2015 (2.8 million to 2.9 million jobs) and by 19.6 per cent since 2011.


25.3%


have no more than five employees


90% EMPLOYMENT BY INDUSTRY


The industry with the greatest growth in employment between 2015 and 2016 was design and designer fashion.


6.2%


37.2 per cent of jobs in the creative industries were filled by women.


2%


7.4% 5.5% 5.5%


5.9% 7.5% 8.3% 15.9% 30.8% 1/3


47.1 per cent of jobs in the UK as a whole were filled by women.


The creative tech industry (IT, software and computer services within the creative industries) now employs just over a third of those working in the creative industries.


47.1% 80%


no more than two


60% just one EMPLOYMENT BY GENDER


37.2%


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