The average advertised UK salary is 31,290 a year

The average salary for a job advertised in the UK in the last six months was 31,290 a year.

Outside London, Scotland is the region with the highest average salary at 29,036. And Gwynedd has the highest average salary for a county, at 35,071.

These figures are from the first Monthly Salary Index published by jobs website AllTheTopBananas.com, which carries one in three UK vacancies.

It analysed more 600,000 jobs advertised between April and September this year.

MD Dave Martin said: ìAs a nation we are incredibly secretive about our salaries, yet love to see how much we earn compared to other people.

ìAllTheTopBananas.com is now making it easy for anyone to see how their salary compares within their county and region, as well as to the national average.î

The website collects and displays jobs from hundreds of partner websites across the UK. It has 230,901 jobs currently active.

Its first Monthly Salary Index is online now at www.AllTheTopBananas.com/salary

Looking at the regions, London of course had the highest average advertised salary at 37,991. The East Midlands had the lowest average advertised salary of all the regions, at 24,940.

The full regional figures are:

Region Average advertised salary
London - 37,991
Scotland - 29,036
East Anglia - 28,673
West Midlands - 28,665
South East - 28,132
Wales - 27,447
South West - 27,035
North West - 26,613
Yorkshire - 26,060
North East - 25,699
East Midlands - 24,940

In the counties, Inner London had the highest average salary at 38,638, and Dyfed the lowest at 22,280.

AllTheTopBananas.com is publishing the Monthly Salary Index as part of its mission to be the most helpful UK jobs search engine.

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