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The pieces might just fall into place. The industry sectors with the largest numbers of these workers potentially leaving, are also those with the highest potential for automation.

If the UK is to move to an economic model that is less dependent on non-British workers to perform work at all skill levels,  encouraging automation will prove just as important as fostering more high-level skills in the economy.

Using employment data from the ONS together with estimates of the probability of computerisation, we created a ranking by industry of the percentage of jobs that could be automated. This data provides a guide to the potential for automation in the UK economy.

Opportunities to automate

Source: Frey and Osborne, ONS, Deloitte analysis 2016