Creative Industries

Cambridgeshire creative industries are predicted to be a major growth sector.

For young people graduating from secondary education in 2024, the growth of creative jobs is more than double the average growth of all occupations across the UK at 5.3%, and 2.5% respectively. Nesta predicts that 87% of creative workers are at low or no risk of automation, compared with 40% as an average of all occupations. A distinctive feature of the creative industries is their increased collaboration and outsourcing, leading to the development of creative business clusters in specific areas of the country. This supports a key finding provided by Nesta that 75% of approximately 900,000 new jobs created within the creative industries between 2013 and 2030 will be in 10 national locations, of which Cambridgeshire is positioned ninth.