27% of the interactive media workforce is female, compared with 38% across the audio visual industries as a whole.  Employment of women in the electronic games industry is especially low at 8%.

Around 7% of the interactive media workforce is classified as from an ethnic minority group, compared with 7% of the wider audio visual workforce.  Throughout the whole of Great Britain, 11% of the population of working age are ethnic minorities, but this rises to 38% in London, where much of the workforce is based.  The proportion of people from ethnic minority groups working in electronic games is substantially lower than the 3% average.

16% of the workforce are working on a freelance basis.

1% of the interactive media workforce are disabled.

Source: Skillset website 2005