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The UK’s Creative Industries are continuing to outstrip other employment sectors in the UK, new Government figures reveal

• Jobs in the Creative Industries have increased three times faster than the UK average
• Diversity in the Creative Industries workplace up by almost 45 per cent – more than double that of wider jobs market
• Creative Industries now generating almost £10m an hour for the UK economy

Since 2011, the number of jobs in the Creative Industries has risen by nearly 20 per cent and now account for 1.9 million jobs – nearly triple the rate of the UK economy as a whole.

Within the Creative Industries, occupations which have particularly flourished include dancers and choreographers (up by 41 per cent), artists (up by 21 per cent), and programmers and software developers (up by 30 per cent). Read More