London salaries are now £11,000 higher than elsewhere in the UK, according to analysis by a jobs site.
Employment search engine AllTheTopBananas.com looked at 555,000 job adverts published in the last six months for its salary index.
It revealed that jobs in the capital had an average advertised annual salary of £41,079, while those outside London were worth just £30,450.
Jobs in the North West had the lowest average advertised salary, at just £28,641.
Dave Martin, managing director of AllTheTopBananas.com, said: “In the nine months we have been publishing this salary index, we have seen a growing gap between advertised London salaries and the rest of the country.
“We continue to forecast rises in average salaries, and a growing gap between London salaries and those in the rest of the UK.”
Average salary by region:
| London | £41,079 |
| East Anglia | £32,551 |
| Wales | £31,795 |
| West Midlands | £31,673 |
| South East | £30,765 |
| South West | £30,496 |
| East Midlands | £30,146 |
| Yorkshire & Humberside | £29,782 |
| Scotland | £29,538 |
| North East | £28,941 |
| North West | £28,641 |
