The creative industries account for almost one job in every 12 in London, according to the Greater London Authority’s (GLA) fourth report on the capital’s creative industries. When combined with workers doing creative jobs outside the creative industries, this rises to one in every six. GLA’s report follows up on its 2002 report ‘Creativity: London’s Core Business’, which focused on creative employment and output in London. It shows that London and the surrounding area are dominant in the UK’s creative industries, with a third of the creative workforce being located in London, and almost 60% being based in the greater South East area. There are 797,000 creative workforce jobs in Greater London, including 386,000 jobs within the creative industries (of which only 188,000 are defined specifically as creative jobs), and 411,000 creative jobs in other industries.
