Exclusive: The past 12 months may have been volatile for the UK filmmaking and television industry with hundreds of workers’ demobilization, but new research has found it. Agencies The rules of their employees grew.
From February 2024 to February 2025, there was a 13 % increase in the employees of management companies in the United Kingdom of all sizes, according to a report issued by the talent agency employees Sumo Exclusively shared with the deadline, with eight employees on average for each agency, which leads to a comfortable positive network for this sector.
Sumo’s research found that small agencies (less than 10 employees) and medium-sized agencies (10-40 employees) have grown at a significant pace of the great traditional players, both of which were 16 % to 17 % compared to 2.3 % for large shops. However, the average duration of employees in boutique agencies is only two years compared to four in larger clothes.
While Sumo was not released from certain agencies, he said, “It was indicated slightly for a six -month decrease between large agencies, due to the known restructuring efforts.”
“There is still a clear difference in the duration of employees between small/medium agencies and the largest agencies,” the Somo report added. “Small -to -a -medium agencies should focus on anticipating strategies to compete with the period seen in large companies.”
The deadline has regularly reported job moves within the scene of the loud UK’s agent, with a little movement about players such as Cortis Brown, United agents, MVE and YMU. Others like a group of awareness talents Opened in the states.
Sumo referred to the growing digital agent space as a specific field of employee growth. Digital employee base grows about 15 %, which was dual and counteratory written. Although they have a slower growth, Sumo noticed that text agencies have “stronger stability”, while employees remain on average for six years.
The report comes after a difficult year for traditional film and television industry in the United Kingdom, where hundreds of demobilization operations were reported in broadcasters and production companies. It was difficult to obtain work as the gradual elimination of the most older species, such as the average realist, and the American buyers retreat from large budget projects. The latest survey of employees at Union Bectu found nearly half of the respondents outside the work and 38 % plans to leave the filmmaking and television industry in the next five years.
