Advertised annual salaries in London £15,000 higher than Devon & Cornwall

London annual advertised salaries have grown 3% whilst Devon & Cornwall have fallen by 5% according to analysis by a specialist UK jobs site.

Employment search engine AllTheTopBananas.com looked at a total 1.5Million job adverts published on their Website during January, February and March 2013 and compared them to the same three months of 2012

It revealed that jobs in the capital had an average advertised annual salary of £41,419, while the average UK advertised salary was £29,923. Devon, Suffolk and Norfolk have the lowest advertised salaries coming in at 12% below the National Average whilst the top earning counties outside London are Berkshire, Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire.

Cris Bradshaw, sales director of AllTheTopBananas.com, said: "We have been building up some very interesting stats over the past 3 years and have shared all our latest findings on our web site. http://www.allthetopbananas.com/analysis/ This is updated every month and will give a valuable insight to the UK jobs market as a whole. “

Average salary by region:

Average advertised salary Jan – March 2013