Who works in Radio?
Radio has a highly skilled and well qualified workforce of which almost two thirds are graduates. About a quarter of the workforce is freelance or employed on contracts of less than a year. Although the majority of the workforce is based in London, the nature of local and community radio services means that the radio workforce is more widely dispersed throughout the UK than other audio visual sectors, with other major clusters in the South East and the North West regions of England, and in Scotland.
On average, the radio workforce is older than that of the Creative Media Industries as a whole. About half the workforce is female. The radio industry employs a relatively low proportion of people from minority ethnic groups, compared both with the local populations from which it draws its workforce, and with the wider audio visual industries. The proportion of people with a disability in the radio industry is higher than that across the AV industry as a whole, but low relative to the wider population.
For more facts and figures on the Radio sector, please visit Skillset's Research pages.