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Employment rates in some areas of central London lagged behind other major cities while a relatively small Midlands city had the best growth.
Coventry topped the charts with a 3.9 percent growth in payrolled employees in August 2023 compared to a year ago.
The area of the country with the least growth was the City of London and bordering borough Camden, where employment rates have fallen 1.4 percent compared to a year ago.
Neighbouring Westminster – the home of Buckingham Palace – also had a negative trajectory, dropping 0.1 percent, as well as Kensington & Chelsea, which is the home of Kensington Palace.
The ONS (Office for National Statistics) regional figures are based on where employees live rather than their place of work.
Other parts of the capital fared better with 3.5 percent growth in Harrow & Hillingdon and 3.2 percent in Brent.
Other English cities have shown good growth with Luton in second place behind Coventry with 3.7 percent.
Wolverhampton had 3.1 percent growth, Portsmouth had a 2.8 percent increase and Derby saw an increase of 2.7 percent.
Analysis from the ONS said: “Over the course of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, all regions’ growth rates followed a similar pattern.
“Growth rapidly declined and became negative in April 2020, but from the middle of 2021 began to recover.
“As regions have caught up with their pre-coronavirus level, these high growth rates have started to fall back to rates seen historically before the coronavirus pandemic.”
Median monthly pay across the regions varied from £1,920 in Leicester to £3,488 in Wandsworth in London.
Early estimates for the month of August show the number of payrolled employees went up 1.5 percent compared to a year ago, with an extra 449,000 people on the payroll.
Median monthly pay for the month across the UK is at £2,260, up 6.7 percent compared to this time last year.
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