Top techie pay by postcode

Londoners earn the fattest UK salaries - 22 per cent over the average yearly wage for all IT workers, new research has revealed.

Northern Ireland came off worst geographically, with IT workers there earning an average of £27,659 per year - 15 per cent less than the UK average salary of £32,368 for all IT staff, according to the National Computing Centre.

London techies get an average annual payslip of £39,610.

Tech workers in the North, Scotland and Wales earn less than the average UK pay scales - for example a Welsh-based IT manager earns an average salary of £43,226, more than £4,000 below the national average of £47,871 for managerial positions.

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Looking across verticals, the public sector reported lower than average salaries for all IT workers and the lowest level of salary increases - typically 3.2 per cent.

The financial sector has the highest average salary (£39,019 across all roles) and the highest salary increase - an average of 4.4 per cent per year.

Overall respondents reported an average total salary increase of 3.6 per cent over the past 12 months, in line with the rest of the UK economy which saw the same average salary increase.

Despite IT grads having the highest unemployment rate, the average number of graduate applications received by IT organisations decreased by more than 30 per cent last year, according to separate research from graduate careers publisher GTI.

Chris Phillips, GTI's UK and Ireland publishing director, said the decrease is probably due to an increase in the number of employers in other sectors targeting IT graduates for their logic, organisation and thinking skills.