However, pay on offer in Dundee is still lagging behind the UK average. With inflated London salaries taken out of the equation the national average advertised salary is now £31,340.

The figures emerged from an analysis of 1312 jobs advertised in Dundee between April and September by Internet job search engine, AllTheTopBananas.com.

The picture is different at a national level with all regions except the South East experiencing a drop in salaries on offer to job seekers.

The company’s managing director Dave Martin said of the situation nationally, “This seems to be another symptom of the credit crunch and the general economic woes the country is going through.

“We had seen strong growth in advertised salaries for 12 months.

“This is a sudden and unexpected drop.

“It’s possible that despite the rise in the cost of living, recruiters are responding to the uncertainties over how businesses will perform in the next year, and are reducing salaries as they advertise jobs.

“Who knows how this will pan out in the next few months?

“While average advertised salaries are much higher now than they were 12 months ago, there’s no way of telling what we will be looking at in autumn 2009.”