London has more people employed in highly skilled sectors than any other city in the world, research has found amid fresh indications that the capital is recovering faster than the rest of Britain.
Deloitte, the advisory firm, studied 22 sectors including banking, legal services, digital media, culture, software development and education. It found that London had 1.5m people employed in these sectors, compared with 1.2m in New York, 784,000 in Los Angeles, 630,000 in Hong Kong and 425,000 in Boston.
And for every job created in these categories in London, a further two were generated in sectors including transport, retail, facilities maintenance, healthcare and law enforcement.