From February 2024 to February 2025, UK management companies saw a 13% increase in their staff bases. A report from talent agency recruiter Sumo indicates an average of eight new hires per agency. Small and medium-sized agencies experienced growth rates of 16% to 17%, significantly outpacing the 2.3% growth at larger agencies. However, the average tenure at smaller agencies is only two years, compared to four years at larger firms. Large agencies faced a slight six-month contraction due to restructuring efforts. The digital agent sector grew by 15%, doubling the growth rate of unscripted agencies and quadrupling that of scripted agencies. Scripted agencies, despite slower growth, boast a stable workforce with an average tenure of six years. This growth in agency staff comes against the backdrop of widespread layoffs in the traditional UK film and TV industry. A Bectu survey revealed that nearly half of respondents were unemployed, and 38% planned to exit the industry within five years.
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3h EXCLUSIVE: The past 12 months may have been volatile for the UK film and TV industry with hundreds of layoffs, but new research has found that agencies grew their staff bases
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3h From Feb 2024 to Feb 2025, there was a 13% rise in employees at UK management companies of all sizes, according to a report from talent agency recruiter Sumo, with an average eight hires per agency leading to a comfortable net positive for the sector
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3h Sumo’s research found that small (less than 10 staff) and medium-sized (10-40 staff) agencies grew at a far swifter pace than the big traditional players, both by around 16% to 17% compared with 2.3% for the large shops
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Mar 13 Starmer points out in his telegraph column that the civil service has grown by 130,000 since the referendum
But it’s worse than that, there has been a particular spike since the pandemic
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Mar 13 Frontline operational staff remain a smaller proportion of the civil service than in 2016
The growth in 2023-24 came mostly from the following areas:
– policy roles
– communications roles
The new government claim to want to crack down on at least the latter, in fairness
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