The UK games industry continues to thrive, with an estimated 39.1 million Britons reported to be video games consumers, according to Newzoo's Global Games Market Report 2022.
As trade body UKIE rightly notes "the industry is an economic powerhouse… providing £2.87 billion in gross value add to the UK economy." Notably it is also one of the UK’s most international workforces with nearly 30% of employees holding a nationality other than British (compared to just 11% of the UK working-age population), according to the latest UKIE's UK Games Industry Census.
The industry has continued to grow despite difficult headwinds, not least the impact of the ending of free movement of workers from the EU (an estimated 20% of the current workforce holds an EU nationality, the UK Games Industry Census reported).