The Future of the UK digital and tech industries

Summary

• The digital industry in the UK is accounts for around 4% of employment and 7% of economic output.
• The whole of the digital sector employed 1.4 million people in 2015, 4.4% of all employment.
• The largest sub-sector in the digital industries was the computer programming and related activities sector, which employed 665,000 people, 47% of all digital sector employees.
• Economic output from the digital sector has grown considerably in recent years – between 2010 and 2015, the digital sector grew by 22%, whilst the whole UK economy grew by 17%.
• The Government’s ambition “to create a world-leading digital economy that works for everyone” is set out in the Digital Strategy, published in March 2017