More than one in 10 of the UK’s financial services workers will not be giving out Christmas presents this year, while nearly one in three of overseas staff working in the UK do not expect to be working in the country next year, according to a new survey adding to the gloom in London’s financial sector.

A survey of 550 financial professionals published today by eFinancialCareers, the careers website for banking and finance staff, found that more than half of the UK-based professionals polled are from overseas, and of those 29% do not expect to be in the UK next year.