Average Salaries by Region in the UK

AllTheTopBananas.com are collecting and analysing salary data from their partner job board websites to provide a Monthly Salary Index.  To create the index they have analysed more 600,000 jobs advertised between April and September this year.

It's not a breakdown by job title/function but nevertheless gives an interesting overview of the differences in salary by geographic location.  The sort of information a recruiter could do with having at his/her fingertips.

The 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 & Humber: £26,060
North East: £25,699
East Midlands: £24,940
The average salary for a job advertised in the UK in the last six months was £31,290 a year.

If you view the list on their website you can see the sample size in each category (overall they analysed 616,374 jobs posted between April & September 2007).  You can also view graphs for counties and UK major cities.

If salary data is your thing then check out our list of free salary surveys at www.ukrecruiter.co.uk/salary.htm

Comments

[Dave Martin]

Thansk Louise for the mention. We are looking into slicing the data by function / job title - although this will not be available until 2008.

We are also investigating a salary report based on skills advertised for.

We would welcome feedback and suggestions from the industry on what salary data would be helpful.

[william fischer]

we haven't announced it yet, but at www.workhound.co.uk we just added a salary tracker that allows an individual to track all jobs posted over the last 30 days and to drill down by title/city/and skills.

i.e. one can put in project manager, then select only London, then select only jobs that require SAP experience. In that example the average salary for a project manager in London is £52,892 but for a project manager in London with SAP experience the figure is £66,716.

The data is derived from over 500,000 job posts and is updated every 2 hours.