TIGA, the trade association representing the video games industry, has released new data showing that employment in the Scottish video games development industry grew 17% between November 2018 and April 2020. Scotland is the fourth largest games cluster in the UK (after London, the South East and the North West).

TIGA’s research shows that:

• Scotland has 1,803 permanent and full-time equivalent creative staff working on games development in 96 companies. This is up from 84 companies employing 1,537 staff in November 2018.;
• Scotland is home to 7.3% of the UK’s total games companies and 10.7% of its developer headcount (the comparable figures for 2018 were 7.9% and 10.7%, respectively);
• Scotland’s games development sector supports an additional 3,296 indirect jobs (up from 2,810 in November 2018); and
• annually, Scottish games development companies are estimated to invest £106 million in salaries and overheads, contribute £97 million in direct and indirect tax revenues to HM Treasury, and make a direct and indirect contribution of £236 million to the UK’s Gross Domestic Product.

To read TIGA’s press release in full, click here.