DCMS sector economic estimates 2021: employment 2019 to June 2021

Pre-release access to DCMS Economic Estimates: Employment 2019 and July 2020 to June 2021

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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 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 year from October 2019 to September 2020, and the year from July 2020 to June 2021. The findings are calculated based on the Office for National Statistics Annual Population Survey (APS).

The statistics have been revised since previous publications to use a new methodology to calculate employment in Civil Society, and to take into account revisions to the underlying dataset published by ONS for the period from October 2019 to September 2020. A revised back series will be published in due course.

Content

The Economic Estimates statistical series covers the contributions of the following DCMS sectors to the UK economy:

• Civil Society
• Creative Industries
• Cultural Sector
• Digital Sector
• Gambling
• Sport
• Telecoms
• Tourism (not included in this release)

A definition for each sector is available in the accompanying technical document along with details of methods and data limitations.

Feedback and consultation

DCMS aims to continuously improve the quality of estimates and better meet user needs. DCMS welcomes feedback on this release. Feedback should be sent to DCMS via email at [email protected].

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 statistician: Rachel Moyce

For any queries or feedback, please contact [email protected].

1. 22 November 2024

   Employment data tables have been removed, and a redirect notice has been added to the landing page.

2. 22 December 2022

   Added a revision note referring to the new re-weighted estimates for the period July 2020 to June 2021.

3. 28 October 2021

   First published.

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