Most  employers plan to maintain recruitment levels of finance professionals.

A survey, from financial recruiter FSS, shows that two thirds of employers plan to maintain hiring levels, while 15% will increase headcount this year.

The vast majority (93%) of organisations are still planning an increase in salary, while 47% of employers had employed new staff from overseas and 13% were planning to increase recruitment outside domestic borders.

Lucy Davison, associate director at FSS, says: “It appears that many employers have learned important lessons from the last major recession in the early 1990s, when downsizing and recruitment freezes were the order of the day.

“The resulting upward pressure on salaries, a scarcity of talent and the need to make extensive use of temporary staff to cover skill deficits when the upturn came, has led to many organisations taking a far longer term view this time round.”