Defining the Facilities Industry
‘Facilities' is the collective term for a group of sub-sectors which offer support services for the creative media.
The Facilities sector is made up of around 3,900 companies employing between them 45,050 people. About one third of the industry is freelance and around 33% are women.
The main sub-sectors within the facilities sector are:
- Outside Broadcast
- Studios and Equipment Hire
- Post Production, including graphics and audio for video
- Special Physical Effects - Physical effects, miniatures, pyrotechnics etc
- Manufacture of Creative Media Equipment
- Processing Laboratories
- Transmission
- Other Services for Film & TV - location services etc
Labour Market Intelligence Digest
Skillset's industry endorsed research programme provides authoritative Labour Market Intelligence (LMI) for the creative media industries throughout the UK.
This LMI informs how we allocate our funding and underpins the development of skills solutions as well as our strategies and Sector Profiles.
Digests for 2011 are currently being produced. The LMI Digest for Facilities 2011 will be published here soon.
For more information on our research work, please visit Skillset's Research pages.