Creative & Digital

The creative & digital sector is extremely broad and encompasses a wide range of activities, including telecoms, graphic design, digital marketing, computer programming, computer games design, virtual reality and social media.

There are over

jobs in this sector in Hull and East Yorkshire

This accounts for nearly

of jobs in the region

Did you know?

Creative & digital is the fastest growing sector in Hull and East Yorkshire, the number of jobs in the sector have increased by 33% since 2015.
There are 575 creative & digital companies in Hull and East Yorkshire, 91% of them employ less than 10 members of staff.
Programmers and Software Development Professionals was the ninth most advertised job in Hull and East Yorkshire in 2023
The number of jobs with computer consultancy businesses in Hull and East Yorkshire has grown by 38% in the last 7 years to 1,450.
In Hull and East Yorkshire, there are 550 jobs working for companies involved in business and domestic software development.

Source: BRES (2022)

Will there be opportunities available?

The creative & digital sector in the UK is expected to grow from a total of 3 million jobs in 2018 to 4.3 million jobs by 2030.
In the last ten years, jobs in the UK’s creative industries have grown at three times the UK average.
Over the longer term, the creative economy is likely to be a key driver of economic growth as governments around the world look to rebuild their economies in the wake of the downturn associated with Covid-19.
A third of the creative & digital sector’s workforce are self-employed.

Source: BRES (2022); The Future of the Creative Industry, Deloitte; Creative Industries Federation

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